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The Courageous Escape of a Holocaust Survivor: A Personal Account

In this profound account from Robert Wagman, a Holocaust survivor and Jehovah's Witness, he shares a chilling memory of a life-threatening medical examination in Heidelberg. Overhearing a conversation about a planned euthanasia, his mother took immediate action, leading them to hide in the reeds by the Neckar River. This gripping narrative highlights the harrowing choices made during one of history's darkest times. The art of survival is vividly captured through their harrowing escape and the personal sacrifices they endured.

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The Courageous Escape of a Holocaust Survivor: A Personal Account

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  1. The Holocaust Multimedia Sources

  2. Robert Wagman (Jehovah’s Witness and Holocaust survivor), 1994 “My mom and I were summoned to a, a part of the university clinic in Heidelberg, in Schlierheim, and there I was examined. And during the examination my mom was sitting on the outside of the room, and she overheard a conversation that the doctors would do away with me, uh, would ab...would abspritz me, which means that they would give me a needle and put me to sleep. My mom overheard the conversation and, uh, during lunch time, while the, uh, doctors were gone, she, uh, grabbed hold of me, we went down to the Neckar River into the high reeds and there she put my clothes on, and from there on we really went into hiding because now we knew that they really were after us. So, uh, we went to my father's house where we also stayed until I started school.”

  3. “Mister C” Written in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1940 by AleksanderKulisiewicz, this song refrences Hitler, Winston Churchill, and the evacuation from Dunkirk.

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