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ed over little Michel to her eld-
est daughter, Esther, and said:
"I have a ,clever • daughter, she
will know what to do."
The clearer daughter` lived up
to her mother's expectation.
She saved herself from the .gas
chamberg, although a prankish
guard locked her up in one of
the chambers for a half hour
and then released her. Believing
she was dead, she waited numb-
ly until he unlocked the door,
called her out and laughing.
ly told her she was still alive.
One life-saving technique she
is willing to reveal is that ,f
being an "absentee" when the
guards went through the bar-
racks ordering everyone out.
Those who were caught hiding
were shot — but Esther took
the risk. Keeping Michel alive
was an even harder job, but it
too was accomplished by the
"clever daughter."
Just before the Russians
swooped down on Oswiecim sev-
eral thousands of the inmates—
Esther and Michel, the only Jews
among them—were shipped north
to Stettinhof. When the very
end of the war approached, they
were loaded on a •vessel in the
Baltic that tried to reach Lu-
beck. The ship was struck, prob-
ably by an, Allied bomber, just
off the shore, and Esther had to
swim for it with her little bro-
ther in her arms
a few morsels for Michel, which made a mother out of me," she
lasted five days. The rest of the
trip he lived on salt water. No
wonder he has an appetite.
Esther deserves a few words.
Now a girl of twenty, she could
easily have developed into a
trim Parisienne. Dressed in the
clothes provided by the repatria-
tion committee, she was indis-
tinguishable from any other of
the smart set. She makes a sharp
contrast with the other teen-age
girls who also lived through the
Oswiecim terrors and were res-
cued by RuSsian troops in Cze-
On May 3, British .• troops chosloVaki .a. But when she talks,
freed them in Lubeck. Esther the three years of horror reveal
themselves, unable to hide under
and Michel were , flown in .an several months of freedom. Walk-
American
bomber
to taken
Brussels,
and
from there
were
to ing through the streets of her
Paris. All along the route, Al- old residential section, she has
her father
mother
lied soldiers took pictures of the visions
coming of
down
to meet or her.
Her
says. She cannot forget her 1
father, age 41, mother, age 39,1 Chanukah Greetings!
deceased.
Michel lives in his own defiant
little world. He babbles in Yid-
dish as any two and a half year
old would. He plays normally,
Fine Clothes
with a soldier hat, like any other
child would. And he has the
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stubborn trait of refusing to
obey when he has made up his
mind to refuse. Maybe that is
why he is still alive.
Michel is living proof that
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the Nazis have failed.
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"wonder child." That you can native tongue is French, but she
well
believe, Michel
for I saw
many
eyes following
at the
Ho- learned Yiddish in the concen-
tration camp. Part of her adap-
tel Lutetin.
tability must be credited to the
The
days were
aboard
the Lithuanian Jewish stock of her
ship
in eight
the Baltic
as hor-
rible as any in Oswiecim. .No parents.
food was provided for the pas-
When she lobks at Michel, she
sengers. Esther had tucked away half cries, half laughs, "Hitler
Chanukah Greetings!
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