Erna Blitzer Gorman - July 12, 1989
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Erna Blitzer Gorman relates her experiences as a child when she and her family were in Poland at the time of the Nazi invasion and were unable to return to their home in France. After living in various ghettos, they escaped and were hidden for more than two years in a barn by a Ukrainian farmer until the area was liberated by Russian soldiers.
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- Family Before the War
- Caught Up in the War-1939
- Grandfather/Family Life
- Father's Hometown
- Mother's Family
- The Ukraine Before the German Occupation
- German Invasion
- Raids and Being in a Bunker
- Uncle
- Ghetto
- Playing
- Typhoid
- Leaving the Ghetto
- Hiding in Ukrainian Farm
- Hiding in a Barn
- Daily Activities
- Illness
- Still in Hiding
- Barn-The Second Year
- Life in the Barn
- Guilt About Surviving
- Physical Conditions
- Liberation
- Death of Mother
- With the Russians
- Returning to Metz
- Life in Metz
- Moving to America
- Not Talking About the War Years
- Telling her Children
- Reasons for Telling Story
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