All I can think about is how her grandfather drove trains into Auschwitz, and that's how my ... Hitler saw Schönwald as a model village - an Aryan village in a land of Slavs.
I never got to meet my grandfather Ludvig, who survived the Holocaust, or his mother Rachel. They were put onto a cattle cart to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Ludvig, who was about 15 at the time, ...
It held that distinction despite the fact that, unlike every other train station in the world, there were only arrivals. No passengers ever departed. Auschwitz was not only a place of murder.
All I can think about is how her grandfather drove trains into Auschwitz, and that's how my ... Hitler saw Schönwald as a model village - an Aryan village in a land of Slavs.