My mother, Barbara Reichmann, was one of the Jewish women mentioned who escaped Poland and survived in Germany as forced labor, passing as Christian. She volunteered for this because, fearing Polish anti-semitism as described in the piece, she felt she’d be safer from detection as a Jew among Germans than among Poles. She and her companion, Sabina, were not in a camp but lived and worked in a resort hotel in Ulm. Shortly after their liberation and establishing themselves as displaced persons in Munich, they married other Holocaust survivors. Sabina died in childbirth. My mother, father and I, four years old, through the auspices of HIAS emigrated to America. You can read her story in the award winning Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West.
My mother, Barbara Reichmann, was one of the Jewish women mentioned who escaped Poland and survived in Germany as forced labor, passing as Christian. She volunteered for this because, fearing Polish anti-semitism as described in the piece, she felt she’d be safer from detection as a Jew among Germans than among Poles. She and her companion, Sabina, were not in a camp but lived and worked in a resort hotel in Ulm. Shortly after their liberation and establishing themselves as displaced persons in Munich, they married other Holocaust survivors. Sabina died in childbirth. My mother, father and I, four years old, through the auspices of HIAS emigrated to America. You can read her story in the award winning Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West.
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