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Norbert Borell*
I was born in Krakow, Poland on October 23, 1913 to Bertha and Simon Borer.
Returning home in 1939 after fighting with the defeated Polish army, Blanca Schreiber,
my childhood sweetheart, and I were married. I was a slave laborer forced to repair
trucks and cars at an Auto-
From the ghetto we were marched to a concentration camp, Plaszow, where I worked in sheet metal and shoe factories. I will never forget the horror of being assigned to unloading the dead bodies from the incoming trains.
In 1944, Blanca’s father, Jakub and I were transported in cattle cars to Mauthausen
in Austria where we worked in the infamous stone quarries. We also dug tunnels underground
in Guzen II, a nearby sub camp. Only weeks before liberation, I witnessed the murder
of my father-
On May 5, 1945, I was liberated by the U.S. Army. Starved and sick, I desperately searched for the remainder of my family. Blanca, Sonia and I were miraculously reunited.
Still with no place to go, we remained in the (DP) Displaced Persons Camps for 3 more years where I worked for the HIAS helping to resettle other survivors. We eventually made it to the United States in 1948 through the sponsorship of my uncle, Harry White, in Peabody, MA.
Blanca and I have two children.
*Deceased 1974