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Testimony: George Schiffman

George Schiffman, a Holocaust survivor, was born in the former Czechoslovakia in 1926 to a family of bakers. The oldest of his siblings, George describes an easy childhood before being deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland at the age of 17, where he was a forced laborer and taken on a death march before his liberation. After staying in a Displaced Persons camp for some time, he immigrated to the United States on his own in 1947. Click here to watch.