Gabi Held Quotes Vlada Braginsky and Alyssa Thompson

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When did things start to change? “I already felt anti-semitism in school and there was a new law that passed that if you were a Jew, you were ordered to wear a yellow Jewish star. We had curfews. We couldn’t go out or else they would lock us in jail.” How was the living quarters in the qhetto? “Hardly any space to move. We were in a very small room. It was inside a big factory room with elders, children and women. They were all laying down thinking how will we all survive here? We were hoping it was the end of the war.”       This is the only certificate but it’s left after the war which the American gave Gabi Held when he was liberated. April 13, 1945. “Old people that had beards when we arrived to the ghettos were getting their beards cut because they were religious Jews. They just wanted to show that they are in power and in control while...