[96] Source Notes: Ina Soep Polak. The author formally interviewed Ina Polak by telephone on February 15, 2008. Her testimony for this book about the liberation, as well as some of George Gross’s photographs, can be seen in the 2007 film Steal a Pencil for Me, directed by Michele Ohayon.
[97] Source Notes: Lisette Lamon. Lisette Lamon’s account is taken from an op-ed she wrote for Mother’s Day in 1979 for The New York Times on April 13, 1979.
[98] Source Notes: Lexie Keston. Lexie Keston’s accounts here were emailed to the author, as noted in the book. She has also had her story published in a child survivor anthology in Sydney, Australia.
[99] Source Notes: Elisabeth Seaman. Elisabeth Seaman came to the 2009 reunion; her comments here were recorded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the film about our project, Honoring Liberation (2010). She also attended several reunions of the 30th Inf. Div. Vets of WWII.
[100] Source Notes: Lily Cohen. Lily Cohen was interviewed at length for the author’s college alumni magazine in 2010; she also emailed me, as noted in the book. Much of the conversation we had over lunch in Tel Aviv on July 2, 2016, formed the basis for the remarks and conclusions in Chapter 17. She, like many of the survivors mentioned here, met Frank W. Towers at the reunion sponsored by Varda Weisskopf in Rehovot, Israel, in May 2011.
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Special thanks again to the following:
ABC World News
Associated Press
North Carolina Public Radio–The Story with Dick Gordon
The families of 95th Medical Battalion soldiers Donald Rust and Monroe Williams (Ervin Abadi Hillersleben paintings)
The Glens Falls Post-Star
The Glens Falls Chronicle
The Israeli Broadcast Authority
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Yad Vashem
If you are aware of any inadvertent omissions, please drop the author a line at [email protected].
Please visit the author’s blog at TeachingHistoryMatters.com for updates on this story and further reading recommendations—notables by Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and others; if you are teaching about the Holocaust, I would heartily recommend Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches [Totten and Feinberg, 2016]. Though it has become a popular curricular choice, I would not recommend using The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in the classroom (see my post at bit.ly/TBITSPs).
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