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Young Sidney Is Captured
At 12, he was taken away from school, never to see his parents
again. He worked as a slave laborer, building army barracks, and at
Dachau, he sewed swastikas on Nazi uniforms.
Sidney was held in Gross-Rosen
Concentration/Work Camp, Auschwitz, and Dachau from the time he was 12
years old until his liberation at 18.7
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A Train To No Where
Sidney says his whole family was gassed or executed.
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Nazis Gassed Mothers And Beat Babies To Death
At the camp, he remembers mothers separated from babies, walking
naked to the "showers" to be gassed, their babies thrown into sacks
and beaten or tossed in the air for target practice.
Filming Glucksman as he recounted the story recently at a local
high school, the photographer's 12-year-old son, Jordan, ran to the
bathroom to be sick.
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Forced To Sew Nazi Uniforms
NOW 81, Sidney Glucksman has no plans to retire from the tailoring
business he started with his wife, Libby, 52 years ago in New Haven
after arriving in the U.S. Sixty-four years ago, as a prisoner in the
concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, Glucksman was sewing swastikas
on Nazi uniforms.
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Sidney Is Liberated
In April 1945, the camp was liberated and an American soldier,
spotting the yellow star on Glucksman's uniform, addressed him in
German.
"I'm Jewish, too," the soldier told the disbelieving prisoner.
"I thought all the Jews in the whole world were dead," Glucksman
remembers thinking.
The soldier, Jerome Klein, gave Glucksman a bar of soap and an Army
uniform to change into. It was Glucksman's first shower in six years.
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Sidney Meets His Wife
From Dachau, he made his way to a "displaced persons camp" where he
met his wife, Libby, a Ukrainian Jew who had worked for the
underground Russian resistance.
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He Suddenly Winds Up In Brooklyn
With Klein's help, the couple immigrated to America and settled in
New Haven. Glucksman found work with a local tailor and eventually
saved enough money to open his own store.
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And Now Comes A Movie
They are actually do a mini documentary on this silly holo-hoax
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