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Sidi Natansohn
I was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia in 1929 to Henry Schwimmer (b. 1903 d. 1985) and Deborah Mendlovitz (b. 1905 d. 1938).
When Germany invaded my home town in 1944, my family and I were taken from the Kosice Ghetto to Auschwitz for three days, to Plashov to do useless work, and then back to Auschwitz.
I will never forget the first three days in Auschwitz, the worst days of my life.
They were a nightmare of showers and shaved bodies, over-
After several months, we were taken to Shoppow, Germany to work in an airplane factory.
When the Americans bombed, we fled to the forest only to return to a factory because
no one would hide us. A three-
Of a city of twelve thousand Jews, my family was the only one to return intact. In 1948, I came to America where I met her husband, Sam. We have four children and three grandchildren. I rejoice in my family, in the founding of Israel, and in seeing Judaism continue.
Each time I hold a Jewish baby, I feel victory over Hitler.