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Paul Chorowski

Deported to concentration camps and survived the Holocaust.

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... Paul Chorowski was deported from the ghetto to various concentration camps, where he suffered horri- bly. Nevertheless, he survived the Holocaust. After the war he came to the United States and raised a fine fam- ily. Today he lives in Long Island City, New York. ...

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... Mr. Solasz likes to tell how he once saved a Jewish man from certain death. This man, Paul Chorowski from Zabludowa, lived in the Bialystok ghetto. During the day, the Nazis forced him to perform work outside the ghetto near the highway. Whenever Chorowski returned, he would sneak a bit of food inside. One day, when he went to a nearby village to obtain some food, a Polish peasant went to Solasz’s father with the story that peasants had murdered Chorowsk1. ...

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