My Father Was A Nazi Slave
My father was a child slave laborer for the Nazis. He was taken into custody when he was about 11 when my grandfather and great uncle were arrested for being part of the Polish Underground where, as lawyers, they had been getting fake paperwork for Jews to get out of Nazi occupied Poland. In the 1970s when I was about 10 years old I remember being with my grandfather when he received a phone call essentially from Israel. It was a strange conversation, and at the end I asked him what it was. He said that something like 92 people had identified him specifically as the lawyer that had gotten them their paperwork to get out of Poland, and they were now living in Israel or New York, and had been interviewed to figure out who had helped people escape the Holocaust. I think they were trying to offer him some status called, “Righteous Among the Nations,” or something that came with Israeli citizenship and free healthcare, and they mostly wanted to give him the acknowledgement. He politely turn...