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Charlene Schiff's Story
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Charlene Schiff's Journey
By Lilli Gikas and Sandra Macias
GOAL!
Thank you!
Liberated by Soviet Troops
Caught Stealing Food in the Ghetto
- Charlene was liberated by the Russian Soviet Union Soldiers
- Was ill and soldiers nursed her back to health
- They took her to several military hospitals
- Schiff describes it as "an act of mercy"
- Cannot decscribe how gentle and kind the Russians were
- States that she will be forever grateful
- Charlene often stole food to share with her family
- Stole two eggs
- Ukrainian guard caught Charlene
- Threw the eggs on the floor and rubbed her face in them
- Threw Charlene back into the ghetto
- Charlene was lucky to survive
Life in the Horochow Ghetto
- People who did not work recieved no rations
- Rations included two slices of bread, some oleo, sugar, and vegetables
- No meat
- Given daily, then once a week
- Usually gone by second or third day
- Children went out to search for food
Anti- Jewish Measures
- Had to bring all gold, silver, radios, furs, and Persian rugs to Germans
- Heads of families were gone (Fathers, brothers)
- Germans gathered the Jews in a marketplace
- Were forced to watch the Germans burn the synagogue, torrah
- Jews were beaten and ill from awful treatment
Surviving the Horochow Ghetto
- Ate worms, bugs, anything she could put into her mouth
- Poisonous wild mushrooms
- Drank water from puddles
- Snow
- Sneak into potato cellars
- Raw rats
Meet Charlene
Conditions in the Ghetto
- Born 1929 in Horochow, Poland
- Parents were local Jewish community leaders
- Father was a professor at the State University of Lvov
- Father arrested by Nazi soldiers
- Charlene, mother and sister forced into a ghetto
- Three families assigned to one room
- Three story building
- Poorest area in town
- One bathroom, one kitchen, and little to no cold running water
- Built bunks of wood to sleep in
- Adults did forced labor
- Children under 14 stayed home bored
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