Hiding in Plain Sight
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Title
Hiding in Plain Sight
Subject
Holocaust Survivors
Creator
David Jacobi
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Subtitle
Becoming a "U-boat"
Lede
"They had a plan."
Story
"My father tells stories of how occasionally he would leave the city and go to a farm area. And someone would allow him to work for them in exchange for food. And he would sleep in the barn. And he said that happened to him a couple of times. But he never really told me how the other family members survived.
They would write notes in advance, and when there was a planned meeting, they would pass those notes on so that the other person would then pass it on to the next person they would meet. It was probably pretty complex. I have no idea how they did it, but they had a plan.
Obviously they would have not worn [their yellow stars] anymore, [but] my grandfather and my father kept those. In fact, they would carry them in their wallets because it was, you know—If you didn’t have it, I guess the thought in their head was that the consequences would be much, much worse, but they didn’t wear it openly.
They would write notes in advance, and when there was a planned meeting, they would pass those notes on so that the other person would then pass it on to the next person they would meet. It was probably pretty complex. I have no idea how they did it, but they had a plan.
Obviously they would have not worn [their yellow stars] anymore, [but] my grandfather and my father kept those. In fact, they would carry them in their wallets because it was, you know—If you didn’t have it, I guess the thought in their head was that the consequences would be much, much worse, but they didn’t wear it openly.
Factoid
1941 - 1945
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