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  • Anne Frank's Family Hid In An Attic For Two Years on Random Stories Of People Who Hid From Nazis During World War II

    (#3) Anne Frank's Family Hid In An Attic For Two Years

    In July 1942, when the Nazis began to send Jews in Amsterdam to concentration camps, Anne Frank's family went into hiding in a secret attic apartment. The family lived with four Dutch Jews, also in hiding, for two years. Their benefactors, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Jan Gies, and Miep Gies, maintained the hiding place and smuggled the Franks food and clothing.

    In August 1944, the Gestapo discovered the Franks, and sent them to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister, Margot, were transferred to Bergen-Belson for labor. Everyone but Anne's father, Otto, died in 1945, before the camps were liberated.

  • Jeannine Burk Stayed In An Outhouse During Nazi Parades on Random Stories Of People Who Hid From Nazis During World War II

    (#9) Jeannine Burk Stayed In An Outhouse During Nazi Parades

    After Hitler invaded Belgium in 1940, Jeannine Burk's father found different hiding places for each member of the family. The last time Jeannine saw her father was when he dropped her off at a house for hiding. Though she had free reign of the house, Jeanine had to hide in the outhouse when Nazis went on parade.

    After Belgium was liberated in 1944, Jeannine was reunited with most of her family. Her father had died at Auschwitz.

  • Mirjam Geismar's Parents Hid From The Nazis Behind A Church Organ on Random Stories Of People Who Hid From Nazis During World War II

    (#6) Mirjam Geismar's Parents Hid From The Nazis Behind A Church Organ

    In 1942, Nazis made Holland an increasingly dangerous place for Jews. Mirjam Geismar's family decided to go into hiding. Mirjam was sent to live with a single mother, Tante Nel, who kept many children hidden beneath the kitchen floor in a compartment accessible by trap door. Mirjam's parents hid in a church, behind the organ. They were almost caught when the Nazis raided the church

    The family was reunited at the end of the war. Mirjam's parents have hated organ music ever since.

  • Selma Schwarzwald Didn't Even Know She Was Hiding From Nazis on Random Stories Of People Who Hid From Nazis During World War II

    (#5) Selma Schwarzwald Didn't Even Know She Was Hiding From Nazis

    When the Germans entered the city of Lvov in southern Poland in 1941, Selma Schwarzwald's family was forced into a ghetto with other Jews. With the threat of deportation to a concentration camp looming, Selma's father, Daniel, acquired false papers for his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Daniel was killed by the Nazis five days before his family made their escape on a train.

    Selma's name was changed to Zofia Tymejko, and she and her mother lived the life of good Christians in the town of Busko Zdroj. Selma forgot she was Jewish until her mother told her in 1948. After learning to hate Jews during the war, Selma suffered tremendous shock. She moved to New York City as an adult, became a radiation oncologist, and settled on the name Sophie Turner-Zaretsky. 

  • Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser Survived Because She Was Blonde on Random Stories Of People Who Hid From Nazis During World War II

    (#12) Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser Survived Because She Was Blonde

    In 1940, Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser's family was forced to move to a ghetto north of Warsaw, Poland. Sima's blond hair and fair complexion allowed her to slip out of the ghetto, past Nazi guards, to purchase and smuggle in supplies. She returned one day to find the ghetto liquidated and went on the run, never seeing her family again.

    Sima was taken in by a Polish family, but fled when Germans came snooping. She took refuge with another family in Warsaw until the end of the war, when she moved to Israel and then Brooklyn.

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    (#4) The Stermer Family Hid In A Cave For More Than A Year

    When Germany invaded Ukraine in 1941, Esther Stermer's family, along with five other families, escaped Nazis by fleeing in the middle of the night to an underground cave. For 18 months, the 38 members of this group of families lived in total darkness during the day and scavenged for food at night.

    Eventually, German SS soldiers found the cave, and Esther came face-to-face with Nazis. With their guns pointed in her face, Esther said to the Germans, "What are you afraid of here? The Fuhrer is gonna lose the war because we live here?" The soldiers left and never returned. Soon after, Russians liberated the area and the families were able to leave. Their triumph was the longest uninterrupted underground survival situation in recorded history.

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During World War II, the Nazis occupied almost the entire European continent. The Nazi military brutally killed millions of innocent lives, which was the darkest period in human history. The Nazis set up concentration camps throughout Europe and carried out large-scale massacres and human anatomy experiments. Countless innocent people were forced to leave their hometowns or hide in order to escape war and persecution.

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