What the photographer saw

Murray and Helen Fersztending. Both Murray and Helen were Holocaust survivors. Both came from families with eight siblings, and both were the sole survivors from their families. Murray grew up in a poor family and at age 7 began apprenticing for a tailor, which later, became his profession. After fleeing Bialobrzegi Poland, he spent half the war in labor camps in the Ukraine, and half the war in hiding. Helen came from a wealthy and well-educated family in Warsaw. She survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the death camps at Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. They met after the war and married. The photo was taken during Passover in Desert Hot Springs, California.

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