“Like all the other Jews of Europe, our lives were disrupted by Hitler, though it was our fortune to survive.

“Like all the other Jews of Europe, our lives were disrupted by Hitler, though it was our fortune to survive.

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder

2013

Stephanie Yuhas, Netanel Miles-Yepez, Deborah Fink, Sue Salinger, David Shneer, Andrew Violet, and Jacob Flaws.

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To keep ahead of the Nazi hordes, we left Vienna and moved to Antwerp. [. . .] Before it was over I spent some time in an internment camp in Vichy, France. From there I crossed the Mediterranean Sea to North Africa. A banana boat took me to West Africa. Then I went by freighter to the West Indies and, finally, on to New York.”

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, First Steps to a New Jewish Spirit