Miracle Escape from a Holocaust Transport: A WWII Story

Author Jessica Dommicent 
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In April of 1944, Nazi soldiers herded eleven-year-old Simon Gronowski and his mother onto a waiting train, along with more than sixteen hundred other Jewish prisoners who lived in Belgium. The train's destination - the notorious Auschwitz death camp in Poland, more than 700 miles away. The Gronowskis crowded into a wooden boxcar with one single, small, wired-over window with no food, water, or seats.

The train started on its way, but less than ten miles later, around 9:30 PM, it slowed and then stopped.

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