Survivor Story: The Zero Haircut

“I didn’t have a typical Semitic face, but my black curly hair betrayed me. Just after my (Aryan) stepfather smuggled my mother and me out of the ghetto, I was taken to a barber who shaved my head. It was called the ‘zero haircut.’ I wasn’t his first client. 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.

A sympathetic Aryan barber gave the ‘zero haircut’ to Jewish children with telltale dark curls
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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