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Holocaust Survivors Recall Death Camp Experiments

Holocaust Survivors

First Posted: 04/11/11 01:54 PM ET Updated: 06/11/11 06:12 AM ET

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Deerfield, IL Patch:

When Eva Kor was 10 her family was forced from a small village in Romania, loaded onto a cattle car and taken to Auschwitz in 1944.

Around that same time, 23-year-old Helen Rappaport and her loved ones were kicked out of their home in Czechoslovakia, crammed into a similar train and transported to the Nazi death camp as well.

Read the whole story: Deerfield, IL Patch

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02:52 PM on 04/11/2011
What an honor it would have been to have heard these two women address
their audience.  Thanks to the Deerfield newspaper for the article.

Respect history and learn from it. 
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01:44 PM on 04/11/2011
Did anyone else read the comment attached to the original article in the Dearborn, IL Patch?
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02:16 PM on 04/11/2011
I did. Is that person saying that the Holocaust never happened or was greatly exaggerated??
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Yes.
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