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Shlomo Breznitz and his sister,
Yehudit Karban, Czechoslovakia |
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"The nun who was in charge of us knew that I was Jewish, and I was not her favorite, to put it mildly. She didn't like me a lot and didn't protect me, particularly from the older and stronger boys."
Shlomo Breznitz
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"It wasn't hard for me to be Christian, because I didn't have a Jewish education. Christianity came to me easily, and I loved it. It helped me."
Yehudit Breznitz Karban
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Before their parents were deported to Auschwitz, Shlomo Breznitz and his older sister, Yehudit, were hidden in separate parts of an orphanage run out of the Sisters of Saint Vincent monastery. For Shlomo, life there was difficult and filled with dread of his circumcision being discovered. Yehudit, a beautiful and popular young girl, was eager to adapt to her new Christian identity and to feel she had some semblance of a normal life during her time in hiding.
Though their father perished in Auschwitz, Shlomo and Yehudit's mother survived and came back to reclaim them. Eventually the family moved to Israel, where Shlomo became the first person in that country to receive a doctorate in the newly emerging field of psychology. Today, he is a professor of psychology at the University of Haifa and at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Yehudit raised a family, and lives near her brother in Haifa.
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