Children of the Holocaust: Stories of Survival - Pawel Lichter

Pawel Lichter born 1931 Poland | died 2023 Tucson

At age nine, Pawel Lichter's family fled Nazi-occupied Rypin with forged documents and went east into the Soviet Union, pretending to be Poles of German descent going to settle the land for Germany. This is his story.

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Before the War
03:32 – German invasion of Poland 1939
06:39 – Nazi occupation of Rypin
13:11 – Fleeing east to the Soviet Union
16:16 – Crossing the border into Russia
18:58 – Journey to Bukhara
26:42 – Liberation

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About CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST: STORIES OF SURVIVAL
From 1941 to 1945, Germany's Nazi regime murdered two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. Of the six million Jews who were victims of this genocide known as the Holocaust, an estimated 1.5 million were children. Against all odds, some managed to survive.

Project producer Laura Markowitz interviewed 19 child survivors of the Holocaust who now live in Southern Arizona. These first-hand accounts describe the brutality they witnessed and the acts of kindness that saved them.

This multi-platform, living-history project documents one of the darkest periods in human history — before this generation is gone and their stories are lost to us forever.

https://azpm.org/childrenoftheholocaust