Bernard
Ores
Bernard Ores
Bernard Ores was born in Poland in 1922 into a Jewish family of four children. Trapped in the ghetto during the war, he lost almost his entire family in the Holocaust, except for one brother who had left for France before the conflict.
For months, Bernard survived in hiding under extreme conditions, at one point living in a hole dug beneath a street and surviving only on flour mixed with water. Eventually arrested, he was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was forced to work in the camp’s quarry, climbing the “Stairs of Death” every day while carrying heavy stones on his back. [...+]
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