Holocaust Miracle

January 24, 2018

Quietly, they hid ‒ and feared for their lives.

Eight-year-old Marcel Drimer, his little sister and their mother lay down on a stretch of ground where a wheat field met a line of trees. The forest was some 300 meters from the neighborhood they’d just been warned to leave in Drohobycz, Poland. An “aktion” was taking place in town, and if the Germans found them, they’d deport them to a concentration camp and kill their hosts.

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