A Survivor recounts from Hillersleben (1945)

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A Survivor recounts from Hillersleben (1945)

December 12, 2008 by Matthew Rozell

survivor-narrative

A new friend in the Netherlands recently acquired this unsigned narrative by a Polish survivor who was liberated on the train by the Americans. This woman was eighteen when the war began, it looks like from Cracow, and the narrative was written shortly after liberation (as you can see from the letterhead, on the German commandant’s stationary) at Hillersleben. We are looking for the writer to release it to her. It is five pages long.

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