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I was 11 years old in 1941 when the Germans burned most of our town.

That's Philip Luzowski, remembering his childhood in Poland during World War II.

He and his family were forced out of the town of Belice, and into a nearby Jewish

ghetto.

They took all seven of us, and they put us in one room without any beds.

Not long after they got there, Nazis started rounding people up to be executed.

He and his family made a hiding place.

They dug a sort of cave under the house and covered it with a wooden panel that had to

be closed from the outside.

And as their first born son, I offered to close the cave.

And I said to the family, I will write some play-cells.

I ran into the marketplace, and I saw thousands and thousands of people surrounded by the Nazis.

And I realized that I don't know anybody.

There was a soldier on a podium standing with his finger pointing right or left.

I noticed that all the elderly and the children were sent in one direction.

And the doctors, nurses, cobblers, tailors, or people that were strong were sent to the

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