Allan
Hall
Allan Hall
Allan was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1935 into a well-to-do Jewish family. The first years of his life were very happy. His father who had studied in Vienna and was fluent in German, worked for an Italian insurance company. His mother was a violinist. Allan was only four and a half years old when the war broke out. His family, who didn’t want to leave Poland, decided to go to Lviv, a 220 miles trip on foot. But in June 1941, the Nazis attacked Lviv. Allan and his family were then forced to move into the Lviv ghetto. [...+]
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« I owe my life to those two and a half days I spent in that station. »
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« The closet measured less than a metre wide by a metre and a half. »
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« Ma mother said to me "If you limp, people will notice you. Please try not to limp". I never once limped because I wanted to live" »
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