![]() ![]() I myself removed my armband with the Star (of David), and went to get only a loaf of bread. “If a Jew was seen buying from a Gentile, they would kill them on the spot,” she remembered. She would risk her life to go get food to bring back to them. “They had to dig their own graves before they were shot and fell into them.” Lieblich and her family hid as best they could. “The Jews were taken to the outskirts of town,” she wrote. ![]() In her memoir, Lieblich described the terror she experienced in her city, which at the time was Czortków, Poland, but is now part of Ukraine. Over the next three years, every day was a struggle to survive. The Holocaust - the genocide of more than 6 million European Jews - was underway. Lieblich and other Jewish people like her became targets. “From that day, hell started,” she recalled. Florence Lieblich was 17 years old when the Nazis invaded her hometown on July 6, 1941. ![]()
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