Carrie
01-26-2005, 02:41 AM
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206089.stm)
By Elliott Gotkine
Tuesday, 25 January, 2005
Amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, somehow, some people managed to survive. Once such couple is David Szumiraj and his wife Perla, who actually met in Auschwitz. For the past 58 years, they have been living in Buenos Aires.
With a hose in his hand and the sun on his face, David Szumiraj sprays water on his beloved potted plants.
Looking at this jovial octogenarian, with his infectious smile and healthy tan, you would never guess that he had been through the horrors of Auschwitz - or that 42 members of his family were murdered in the Holocaust.
David's nightmare began in the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, in central Poland, towards the end of 1942. He describes how one day, everyone on his street was rounded up by German soldiers and taken to train wagons.
Full story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206089.stm)
By Elliott Gotkine
Tuesday, 25 January, 2005
Amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, somehow, some people managed to survive. Once such couple is David Szumiraj and his wife Perla, who actually met in Auschwitz. For the past 58 years, they have been living in Buenos Aires.
With a hose in his hand and the sun on his face, David Szumiraj sprays water on his beloved potted plants.
Looking at this jovial octogenarian, with his infectious smile and healthy tan, you would never guess that he had been through the horrors of Auschwitz - or that 42 members of his family were murdered in the Holocaust.
David's nightmare began in the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, in central Poland, towards the end of 1942. He describes how one day, everyone on his street was rounded up by German soldiers and taken to train wagons.
Full story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206089.stm)