Survivor Story: Saved by a Burned-Out Bulb

“During the roundup, people hid in the basement or inside furniture, but the Nazis strafed the place with shots and several were killed. A soldier with a flashlight approached the table under which my father and brother were hiding. My father kissed my brother, prepared to die, but the flashlight’s bulb burned out just before the soldier reached them and he went away.” 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.

During roundups, Nazis searched for Jews in hiding and shot them
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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