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Jewish Survivor
Ellis Lewin remembers arrival at Auschwitz and separation of family members. He explains his parents' efforts to survive the selection.
Gender: Male
DOB: May 22, 1932
City of Birth: Lódz (Poland)
Country of Birth: Poland
Ghettos: Lódz (Poland : Ghetto)
Went into hiding: Yes
Other experiences: Displaced persons camps
As the Allies retook control of lands that had been occupied by the Germans, they came across many Nazi camps. In some instances, the Nazis had tried to destroy all evidence of the camps, in order to conceal from the world what had happened there. In other cases, only the buildings remained as the Nazis had sent the prisoners elsewhere, often on death marches.
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