David
Schaecter
David Schaecter
David was born on 4 August 1929 into a family of four children from Czechoslovakia, in the Snina wine region. As soon as the war broke out in 1940, his father was arrested and sent to a labor camp. Later in 1941, the rest of the family was arrested by the Slovak Nazi Party. David, then aged 11, his 15-year-old brother Jacob, his mother and his two sisters were deported to Auschwitz. On arrival at the camp, the two brothers were separated from the women in the family and selected for work. [...+]
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« It was only standing up and falling on top of each other. »
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« My mother kept the two girls at her side and was pushed until they fell into the pits. »
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« I was in that forest for more than eight days. »
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