Holocaust Survivor Learns Father's Fate

Swede

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Thu Jan-17-08 12:18 PM
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Holocaust Survivor Learns Father's Fate

The archive showed that Bar-Yuda's father, Alfred Kastner, was killed in a Nazi gas chamber at the Majdanek death camp in Poland on Sept. 7, 1942, less than six months after his son watched him being taken away. Bar-Yuda said despite the tragic ending, he was grateful to finally have some closure and an exact date to recite Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080116/D8U77CM01.html

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uppityperson

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Thu Jan-17-08 12:23 PM
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1. It can be good to know the amount of suffering a loved one had, and when they died.

sad

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rockymountaindem

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Thu Jan-17-08 01:09 PM
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2. I can't imagine what that must be like

I hope the family finds peace.

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emilyg

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Thu Jan-17-08 01:12 PM
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3. This is good.

All we got was a box of blood soaked clothing. My birth father perished at Auschwitz.

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