Tell the Children: Letters to MiriamContains memoirs of Sorell, written as letters to her granddaughter. Pt. II (pp. 53-131), "A-7603", relates her experiences in the Holocaust, interspersed with more recent experiences. Sorell lived in Sighet, Romania. She was deported in May 1944 to Auschwitz and in December 1944 to the Weisswasser labor camp, a satellite of Gross-Rosen, where she was eventually liberated. After the war she emigrated to the U.S. |
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