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Philadelphia Man Shares Grandfather's Story Of Survival On Holocaust Remembrance Day
"He was finally found out without papers and taken by cattle car to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz," Avi Wisnia said.
January 27, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Holocaust Remembrance Day is being marked around the world 77 years after Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp. Eyewitness News spoke with a Philadelphia man whose grandfather survived Auschwitz and why it’s so important to share his grandfather’s story.
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When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, 15-year old David Wisnia came home one day to find his father, mother and baby brother had all been killed by the Nazis. His older brother ran away and tried to escape, but he too was killed.
“He was finally found out without papers and taken by cattle car to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz,” Avi Wisnia said.
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