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(including a brick factory and an airfield
where he had to load bombs onto Nazi
planes). Each time, he managed to escape
at just the right time.
Shoshana was born in the town of
Fadd, about a hundred kilometers down
the Danube River from Budapest. The
small town had about a dozen Jewish
families before the war, and her father
served as cantor in the town’s synagogue
(he was also a university professor and a
war hero from World War I) …
Shoshana convinced her father to let
her spend spring vacation in Budapest in
1944, where her older brother, Avri, was
apprenticing as a tailor. It was on the day
she was to return to Fadd that Germany
officially took over Hungary, and
Shoshana was unable to board the boat
that would have taken her back because
she was a Jew. In the chaos that ensued,
she was separated from her brother and
would not see him again until after the
war.
Shoshana spent several weeks in a
girl’s orphanage outside the city before
being sent to a factory. Because she was
under 16, she was placed in a line with
other girls who were alone without fam-

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Schostak of Baltimore, put together these
accounts of their family histories:
[Sol] was born in the town of
Beregszasz (now Ukraine). His mother,
Chaya, came from an ultra-religious fam-
ily, and his father was a horse-and-buggy
driver from a religious background. They
did not have a lot of money, and the chil-
dren often fought over the little bit of food
Chaya could put on the table.
At the age of 17, [Sol] left his family
to make it on his own in the big city. He
took a train to Budapest where he worked
as a cook and watchman at an all-boys
Jewish orphanage. He last saw his family
at his childhood home when he visited for
Purim in 1944 …
The Nazis took over the region and
deported the Jews of Beregszasz on the
last day of Passover that year. Sol spent
the remainder of the war on the run from
the Nazis. His blond hair, blue eyes and
youthful visage allowed him to pass easily
enough as an Aryan schoolboy, and he
was even employed at one time as a cook
for Hungarian Nazis.
He was on the run from the Nazis and
Hungarian Nazis on six different occa-
sions and sent to three working camps

— Sol Winkler

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