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Surviving the Holocaust
Dr. Eugen Schoenfeld shares his remarkable story with Southeast Bulloch Middle Schoolers
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After a program at Southeast Bulloch Middle School Tuesday, sixth grader Joseph Dickey, 11, asks Holocaust survivor Eugen Schoenfeld, 86, how old he was when he was liberated from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. Once Schoenfeld answered he was 19 and was there for a year, Dickey said, "At least you got out." "Yes. I got out," responded Schoenfeld, who lost his entire immediate family in the experience.
The atrocities of a Jewish genocide during World War II were given a human face Tuesday when Holocaust survivor Dr. Eugen Schoenfeld captivated a group of sixth-grade students at Southeast Bulloch Middle School. Schoenfeld was 18 years old when Nazi soldiers raided his mostly Jewish town at the base of Czechoslovakia’s Carpathian Mountains in March 1944. Removed from their home and packed into cattle cars, Schoenfeld and his family were transported, like millions of others, to a Nazi concentration camp.
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