Ursula Levy
Survivor Testimony #2
Ursula Levy was born in Ausnoplic Germany in the year of 1935. Her father and her uncle were exposed to very cold temperatures in a concentration camp, they both encountered injuries in their legs causing their deaths. Her mother’s side of the family was more liberal about their religious views, and her father’s side was more religious.
After Crystal Night had happened Ursula’s mother called her brother who at that time lived in here in America to ask for help to get Ursula and her older brother out of the country. After leaving the country Ursula and her brother were picked up and sent to a place to help children gain weight for six weeks. After that sometime during their stay the Jewish children were taken to concentration camps.
While in the camp Ursula turned to the age of 8, this was a special birthday to her because the man that took her and her brother showed up to the camp they were in and gave her a gift. This was uncommon for a civilian to come into the camps, he was able to because he owned a hardware store and gave the leader of the camp discounts. The man then pointed out that Ursula and her brother couldn’t be Jewish because of the color of their eyes, and this raised questions about their father’s background because he lived in America and that he was catholic. Before Ursula and her brother were completely released they were sent to another camp. During the stay at this last camp the two had to endure a train ride that lasted for 13 days and ended with the Russians stopping and taking over the train releasing the people on the train.
Ursula and her brother were very luck children to leave a camp without any extra fears. If her and her brother were sent to Auschwitz they would have been killed right away because of their age, they never had to experience the deaths, crematoriums, nothing.
“Germany had captured Holland in a matter of days”
“Out of the 5 children who were sent to the concentration camps me and my brother were the only ones who survived”
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