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Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Leo Diamantstein, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Leo Diamantstein, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Living in constant fear, the Diamantstein family fled from place to place—to a large Jewish community in Frankfurt; to the apartment of friends in Milan, Italy; to Como, Italy, escaping barefoot in...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Paula Popowski was born in Poland in 1923 in a predominantly Jewish city. "I came from a very orthodox family. I didn't socialize with Gentiles. Jews and Gentiles didn't mix in public school." In the...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

In April 1945, just before the war's end, Lon Redman encountered his first concentration camp—Flossenburg. There was no organized resistance against the American soldiers. They easily evacuated the...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Martha Bauer and her family lived in Belgium. When Hitler took over, children were taught to hate all Jews. She was careful with childhood friendships and would not even walk with non-Jewish friends...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in Vienna in 1914, Felix Bauer lived with anti-Semitism even before Hitler's takeover of Austria. When the Nazis invaded, his father said, "Nobody will do anything to me." But the killings...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Senator John Drummond | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

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Senator John Drummond | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in Greenwood, S.C., in 1919, John Drummond joined the Air Force and went to England. He was captured by the Nazis and shipped to a prison camp in Frankfurt where Americans were interrogated. Next...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Senator Strom Thurmond | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Senator Strom Thurmond | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Senator Strom Thurmond was with the 1st Army all through the war in Europe. They encountered Buchenwald near Leipzig, and he recalls "never having seen the like of what I saw there." He relays that...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Henry Allen | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Henry Allen | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

The Horry County native was sent to Fort Bragg, N.C. and then to Europe in 1945. In April 1945 at Ohrdruf Death Camp, he saw stacks of dead bodies and those left alive suffering from acute...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Joe Engel was born near Warsaw, Poland in 1927. His father ran a luncheonette grocery. He went to public school in a small Jewish community and felt the animosity created by anti-Semitism. In 1942 all...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Pincus Kolender was born in 1926 in Poland. In 1940 synagogues, schools, and businesses were closed to Jews, who were placed in ghettos. One always felt trapped in the ghetto. The Nazis treated people...

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