“Beeting” the Selection

“Some sick prisoners tried to outwit SS selections. In the barracks kitchen, they rubbed scraps of beets on their cheeks to make them look red and healthy. It was risky, though, because sometimes healthy prisoners were picked to give blood for German soldiers.” 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.

Meager rations were prepared in barracks kitchen
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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