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A Love Story Of Two Children And An Apple
In the beginning, there was a death camp, a boy, a girl and an
apple.
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Love In The Carnage Of Europe
He was a teenager in a death camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. She
was a bit younger, living free in the village, her family posing as
Christians. Their eyes met through a barbed-wire fence and she
wondered what she could do for this handsome young man.
She was carrying apples, and decided to throw one over the fence. He
caught it and ran away toward the barracks. And so it began.
As they tell it, they returned the following day and she tossed an
apple again. And each day after that, for months, the routine
continued. She threw, he caught, and both scurried away.
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Off To The Death Camps
Suddenly young Herman Rosenblat's life had changed forever. His
family had been forced from their home into a ghetto and all died.
Herman was sent to various different camps around Europe.
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Rosenblat Ends Up In Theresienstadt But Is Liberated
Not long after, the Russians rolled in on a tank and liberated
Rosenblat's camp. The war was over. She went to nursing school in
Israel. He went to London and learned to be an electrician.
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The War Is Over And The Two Move To New York
Rosenblat eventually moved to New York. He was running a television
repair shop when a friend phoned him one Sunday afternoon and said he
wanted to fix him up with a girl. Rosenblat was unenthusiastic: He
didn't like blind dates, he told his friend. He didn't know what she
would look like. But finally, he relented.
It went well enough. She was Polish and easygoing. Conversation
flowed, and eventually talk turned to their wartime experiences.
Rosenblat recited the litany of camps he had been in, and Radziki's
ears perked up. She had been in Schlieben, too, hiding from the Nazis.
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Oy Geyalt!! She Was The Girl With The Apple
She spoke of a boy she would visit, of the apples she would bring,
how he was sent away. And then, the words that would change their
lives forever: "That was me," he said.
Rosenblat knew he could never leave this woman again. He proposed
marriage that very night. She thought he was crazy. Two months later
she said yes.
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The Rest Is Holocaust History
In 1958, they were married at a synagogue in the Bronx — a world
away from their sorrows, more than a decade after they had thought
they were separated forever.
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Oprah Winfrey Fell For Story
When Oprah heard it, about
Rosenblat and his now-wife tossing apples over a fence to each other
at a Buchenwald subcamp in Poland circa 1945, she called it “the
single greatest love story, in 22 years of doing this show, we've ever
told on the air.”
Three months later it was revealed
as a hoax, and Oprah was angry.
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