Survivors' memoirs chronicle the Holocaust
By MENACHEM Z. ROSENAFT
n 1942, Jadzia Szpigelman, now Jane Lipski, was a 17-year-old member of the Jewish resistance in the ghetto of Bedzin, Poland. The following year, after her family had been deported to Auschwitz, she managed to escape to Slovakia where she met her future husband. Soviet partisans took them to Moscow to be honoured as heroes, but imprisoned them instead. She never saw her husband again. Jane bore her son in a Soviet prison and miraculously, they both survived.
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I just wanted to say how important it is for these memoirs to live on and be read by all. We must always remember the individual stories of strength and courage of the surviving victims of the Holocaust as well as all those who passed. Every individual no matter who they are, what they believe, or where they are from, hold the responsibility to educate themselves and children how humanity has and continues to be consumed with such ignorance and evil. It is the only way to a better world. I am the grandson of Jadzia Szpigelman (Jane Lipski) and the son of Edward R. Lipski (1945-2003) who was born in a Soviet prison. My existence is entirely from their strength and courage to survive. I will never forget.