Survivor Story: Touch the Wire

“Many people, desperate to end it all, chose to ‘touch the wire.’ They lay there dead, electrocuted, looking beautiful. When my sister and I got scarlet fever. and were selected to go to the gas chamber, we wanted to ‘touch the wire.’ We were almost there when our block leader pulled us back so we could continue to work for her.” 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.

Some people committed suicide by touching the electric wire
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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