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Janet Applefield
I was born Gestava Singer on June 4, 1935 in Krakov, Poland to Amaja Nabel and Alojzy Singer. I was 4 years old when the war broke out. When my parents realized that escape was impossible, they sent me to stay with my nursemaid. Soon after my departure, my mother was sent to a concentration camp and my father was sent to the Krakow Ghetto.
With false papers I went to live with a cousin who brutally abused me. When she was taken by the Germans, I was left alone on the sidewalk until a Polish woman, not knowing MY Jewish identity, brought me to her family's farm.
At the end of the war the Polish family took me to the Jewish orphanage where I became one of "Lena's Children" until I was miraculously reunited with my father. Unfortunately, my mother never returned.
On March 25, 1947 my father and I came to America. With his love and guidance I began a new life and learned not be hateful.
My husband, Jerome, and I have three children and one grandchild.
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