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We Were There
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 22, 1947:

By Albert Hutler

When the Nazis two-stepped into Poland Jewish children were forgotten. Hitler really didn't think it mattered whether the Jewish children lived. They were torn from their parents' arms and their parents were sent to Dachau or Buchenwald or Treblinka.  Those babies that lived became orphans of the war. Some found their way to America, to Palestine, or to Britain; others were adopted by sympathetic Christian families.  Many died of starvation.

One child I knew managed to find her way to Palestine. She was 11 years old when the Nazis came to send her father, her mother and her brother to Buchenwald. Her parents told her to leave the house and to flee as best as she could. An eleven year old girl wandered across the surface of Europe from Germany into France, to Italy and then to Palestine—wandered by herself with the help of the underground of patriots.  She ate where she could, and what she could find but she reached Palestine.  Five years later a letter was received by her brother and for the first time he knew that his little sister was still alive.

This little Michel girl symbolizes all of the surviving Jews in Europe today. These are a people who will not be defeated. These are a people worth having a new life.

Through the United Jewish Appeal, it can be done. Through your contribution to the United Jewish Fund of San Diego, it will be done.