This past Tuesday, I attended the VA Holocaust Museum to tour the museum and to have dinner with two survivors of the Holocaust. \u00a0I have been to the National Holocaust Museum in DC before but the tour of the VA museum was especially powerful as it tied many connections to Va to the Holocaust. \u00a0One fo the most interesting things I learned about VA in relation to the Holocaust was about a farm in western VA that sheltered Jewish men that had escaped from Germany prior to the war. \u00a0These men worked on the farm in order to make a living and in turn they were provided a place to live in safety away from Germany. \u00a0When the war started, these men joined the allied forces and fought against Germany in WWII. \u00a0I found this story unique and very interesting as it happened right here in VA.<\/p>\n
After the tour of the museum, we sat downforce dinner and two survivors of the Holocaust spoke to our group. \u00a0The man spent time in 4 different concentration camps. \u00a0He claims the only reason he survived is because he was given better rations as he was a very skilled worker. \u00a0The camp he was at was responsible for building rockets for the German army. \u00a0He was liberated by the British army and then settled with his wife in Richmond. \u00a0His wife who also survived the Holocaust had a different story than he did. \u00a0She spent the Holocaust in hiding. \u00a0Her father purchased fake papers for her and her sisters that claimed they were Catholic. \u00a0At 14, she boarded a train with nowhere to go and eventually found work as a maid. \u00a0She spent the war working as a maid under a false identity and then her and her husband moved to Richmond.<\/p>\n
This experience was incredible as it really brought to light the horrors of the Holocaust though personal examples as well as tying the Holocaust back to Richmond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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