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Family hiding during ghetto invasion
A family of five hid in a small room for a week during Nazi violence.
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... We were a family of five, living in the Bialystok
ghetto, in one small room. There was a closet with
another door within it, leading to an even smaller room.
This room was rarely used until we got word that the
Nazis were going to invade the ghetto. And just days later
they did. The five of us — my father, mother and their
three sons — hid in the little room fora full week. Outside
there was violence. We heard shooting, cries for mercy
and more machine-gun fire. One dav during that week, we
heard movement inthe other room. We sat still, the five of
us huddled together, not daring to make a sound and ...Connected nodes