Learning about the Holocaust

Understanding the Impact

 
 

Myra’s Article on Her Mother’s Rescue

Holocaust rescue 70 years ago left scars now beginning to heal

 

Videos: Mendek’s Sister, Bronia, Shares Her Experience

▶️ Terrors of the Nazi occupation

Memories of the traumatic night the Nazis threatened her father in his hardware store in Jaworzno, Poland.

 

▶️ The roundup

Being captured and then escaping from Nazi guards in Jaworzno, Poland.

▶️ Mendek becomes a Nazi slave labor prisoner

Memories of her brother, "the superhero."

 

▶️ Bronia trusts individuals, but not humanity.

The impact of living through the Holocaust.

▶️ Reflections on Mendek’s Writing & Healing Journey

Thoughts on Mendek's writing and how his inner journey both mirrored and differed from Bronia’s.

 
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Mendek’s Displaced Persons Card

Mendek’s Displaced Persons Card

 
 
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