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White, Alexander Concentration Camps, Extermination, Survival and Liberation
During the entire year of 1943, Alexander White and his father worked at the air base and lived in the barracks.
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White, Alexander Early Life in Poland
Alexander Bialywlos White was born in June 1923 in southern Poland. His parents, two brothers and sister were all victims of the Holocaust.
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White, Alexander Fleeing the German Onslaught
His family knew the Germans were advancing into Poland, and Alexander White said they were scared.
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White, Alexander From Poland to America and into the US Army
The journey to the American Zone took Alexander White through Czechoslovakia westward to a displaced persons camp where he found help to matriculat
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White, Alexander German Occupation and Resettlement of Polish Jews
Although there was a Gestapo presence in their town, Alexander White's father felt it was safe for his family to return home in September 1939
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White, Alexander Introduction to Mass Murder
Alexander White remembers that when the German army entered Dynow, the soldiers who encamped there were very impressive and "behaved decently.
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White, Alexander Liberation and Returning Home
Alexander White described conditions at the Schindler factory as "difficult." Food was scarce, and, initially, rations were limited to on
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White, Alexander U.S. Army, Medical Career, and Retirement
Alexander White enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Fort Sam Houston in Texas.
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White, Alexander Working for Survival
Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers.
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White, Charles Entrance into Service
Charles White was born in 1924 in Coraopolis [Annotator’s Note: Coraopolis, Pennsylvania]. He served from 1941 to 1945. He enlisted in the Army.
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White, Charles Patton's Army
Charles White went through Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944].
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White, Charles Reflections
Charles White was in Nuremberg, Germany when he heard the war was over. He went from France to Germany in a tank.