Her parents took their Holocaust secret to their graves
Raised by two loving Hungarian immigrants who came to the U.S. to start anew, Linda Ambrus Broenniman recalls a normal, happy childhood. However, as an adult that all changed. As she recounts in her new book, The Politzer Saga, her parents took a shocking Holocaust secret to their graves.
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Born during the Holocaust in the same concentration camp, three survivors connect 70 years later
In 1945, Hana Berger-Moran, Mark Olsky and Eva Clarke were born in Mauthausen, a concentration camp in upper Austria named "The Bone Grinder." "No prisoner was expected to emerge from Mauthausen alive," writes author Wendy Holden. Seventy years after the camp's liberation, Hana, Mark and Eva have finally met. In her new book, Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance and Hope, Holden details the lives of these three remarkable Holocaust survivors and their mothers.
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My grandpa reveals his Holocaust secret
"There was no place in my training as an 18- or 19-year-old soldier that even gave a hint as to what you would do if you came across a situation like this," Joe Iverson told his granddaughter. For 60 years, he kept a secret about what happened in Europe, about the atrocities that scarred him for the rest of his life.
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