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In reply to the discussion: 78th International Holocaust Remembrance Day: A poll [View all]Conjuay
(1,429 posts)had the most amazing accent. She learned French from another Yiddish speaking prisoner. She was then taught English from a French/English speaking prisoner. She was truly the voice of western Europe by the time she reached America.
This friends Father was quite quick to show off his tattoo; after he was freed from whichever concentration camp he was in, he went into smuggling cigarettes across a Berlin checkpoint one way and toilet paper back the other way. He had figured out that toilet paper and cartons of cigarettes weighed about the same. The few times he was hassled at a checkpoint, he made sure
the guard could notice his tattoo. The guards realized he had already been through hell, and that they would be about the lowest creatures on Earth if they got after him for trying to make a few bucks.
So, yes Ive known more than one, and yet you dont list that option in your survey.
I dont think people consider those who lived through that onslaught the same way I do, to me they are part of that Greatest Generation people like to talk about.