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5 unusual facts about Thanks to My Mother


Thanks to My Mother

Two days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Suzanne was eight years old, Germans occupied Vilnius and Suzanne’s father, Isak Weksler was arrested as a Jew and was eventually sent to his death at Paneriai - Ponary.

Each pass allowed the holder to add a spouse and two children, who were then exempt from periodic actions, which as the Indurski’s correctly surmised, were deportations for execution at Ponary or to the death camp of Majdanek.

Raja and Suzanne, together with the other female survivors, were now sent by train for forced labor to the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga, Latvia.

In the last week of September, 1944, the Kaiserwald concentration camp was evacuated due to the advance of the Russian army.

Zealous “chappers” or “catchers” hunted down people wearing a yellow star and took them to Lukiszki prison, for eventual execution at Ponary.



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