Helen Degen Cohen was born Halina Degenfisz in a town near Warsaw. When the Germans invaded, the family fled to Lida, White Russia, but were incarcerated in the Lida Ghetto by the advancing Germans. Because the Ghetto population was shrinking due to the Selections, Helen's father found a way of getting the family to live in semi-hiding in the prison where he worked. When finally all remaining Jews in Lida were exported, and the family stood at the...
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