Holocaust survivor visits Stars and Stripes Museum

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Ben Fainer was just nine and a half years old in 1939 when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Bedzin, Poland by Nazi soldiers. Ben, who was big for his age, told the soldiers he was fifteen and a half and thus was put into the group with those capable of working. The elderly and women with small children, such as Ben's mother and three siblings, were placed into other groups and sent to extermination camps.

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