Survivor Story: We Feared Poles More Than Germans

“Smuggled out of the ghetto, we weren’t afraid of Germans, who couldn’t recognize a Jew. They thought we looked the way Nazi propaganda portrayed us: crooked noses, side locks, black coats. We were more afraid of our Polish neighbors turning us in.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Racist Nazi stereotypes of Jews
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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