Out of a Jewish community of 800 before the war, Roman was one of only four survivors from his town. He was alone in the world. - Karen Pollock

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Out of a Jewish community of 800 before the war, Roman was one of only four survivors from his town. He was alone in the world.

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About Karen Pollock

Karen Emma Pollock CBE (born May 1974) is a British writer, activist and chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).

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He and his family were marked out with the yellow star, they were stripped of their property and their rights, they were expelled from their schools, they were forced into a ghetto, they endured starvation and disease. And eventually, they were deported to concentration and death camps and murdered.

The seemingly endless book of victim names. The train tracks which brought the victims to their final destination. The gas chambers. Nothing can replace standing at this site, seeing the grotesque reality of the day-to-day function of an extermination camp.

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Haya was marched to an execution spot.
To this day, Hannah freezes as she recalls the moment she saw her mother fall, saw blood on the snow, and understood that her mother was not coming back.
Hannah was seven years old.
Incredibly, Hannah survived.

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