Jack Mandelbaum: Holocaust Survivors

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There was only 900,000 [ historiography-project.com ] Holocaust survivors but 20 million people died.[ businessinsider.com ]. The Holocaust also known as the Shoah started January 30th, 1933 and went to May 8th, 1945. One of those lucky survivors was Jack Mandelbaum.

Jack Mandelbaum was 13 years old when his life took a turn for the worst. Jack's father left to go somewhere but got taken to a concentration camp. Just a couple of years later the SS came and got the rest of Jack's family which included his mother and brother. Jack and his family then later got into a line that was choosing whether you went to Auschwitz to get gassed or went to the left and got sparred and jack went to the left and wasn't going to get gassed and his family

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