![]() In Lithuania, he was celebrated as a hero.I concluded that my grandfather was a man of paradoxes, just as Lithuania - a country caught between the Nazi and Communist occupations during World War II, then trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next 50 years - is full of contradictions." The story of my grandfather was much darker than I had known. But as I sifted through the material, I came across a document with his signature from 1941 and everything changed. (Silvia Foti, NY Times, 1-27-21) "On her deathbed in 2000, my mother asked me to take over writing a book about her father. Also available, two history units on the Lodz Ghetto for use in classrooms, available through Teachers Pay Teachers Perseverance: One Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Poland to America by Melvin Goldman and Lee Goldman Kikel. ![]() Nobody ever told her the reason for these rules." "At the villa, Evy had to sleep with a blanket pulled tight under her armpits, her arms ramrod straight by her sides, to insure that her hands couldn’t wander. ![]() In final part she documents how she searched for information about her roots. Behind a Locked Door: The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children (Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10-2-23) As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck.Of the Nazis, of Jewish Deaths, and of Survival
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