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International Plastic Modellers Society (UK) Newsletter - Issue 148, March 2025

[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars Memoirs of A Holocaust Survivor is written by A. M. Fox, on behalf of her Polish Jewish husband Harry who survived incomprehensible horrors as a child (political!) prisoner at Czestochova, Buchenwald, Dora, Nordhausen and Hertzung. His father died at Nordhausen. Dozens of other family members died or were murdered except for Harry and his younger brother, Jona, and a cousin. After miraculously surviving the camps, the brothers were forced on a death march and taken to Theresienstadt Camp where they finally liberated. They and other "Boys" were taken to England where they were treated with care. Harry even met British royalty later! The author describes Harry's energetic childhood, school, his loving parents Jossel and Ruchel, and siblings. Though antisemitism always simmered, it worsened drastically one night when Nazis arrived and ordered everyone in their small community to leave in two hours or be shot. Their lives changed forever that day. First came.. Read more
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In the summer of 1942 the US War Department activated the 99th Infantry Battalion. Banded together were Norwegian men who had escaped the German Occupation of Norway, or men currently living in the United States who were of direct Norwegian descent. Following initial fitness training, the men were tested to their limits with high altitude and mountain warfare training in the Colorado mountains. From here they would eventually sail to Britain and continue their training at camps near Salisbury and in a 'very wet and muddy' South Wales. Most expected this was in preparation for operations in Norway. Some were selected for parachute training, but the rest of the Battalion sailed to France shortly after D-Day. For many the first sight of France was landing at Omaha Beach and seeing the rows of white crosses marking the graves of fallen comrades. The 99ers themselves would soon be facing the enemy on the frontline. From the summertime battles for the Channel ports, to the bitter Ardennes winter.. Read more
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