“The SS officer said they needed prisoners who knew how to feed pigs. Everybody wanted to get away from the hard labor in the camp and work on the farm. I said I was born on a pig farm (a lie), but the guard pushed me back. As the men chosen marched away, machine guns mowed them down. The officer came back and laughingly said, ‘Who else knows how to feed pigs?’” Read about two Holocaust survivors in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
Prisoners labor at Nazi work camp
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter
