Second Generation Talk with Avi Applestein, Part 2

We met with Avi Applestein again for Part 2 of his Second Generation Talk. He spoke about the lives of his parents, that both survived the Holocaust, and discussed how their experiences affected him too.
Avi’s parents grew up in Poland. They were born before the war began. In 1942, the Nazis deported 16-year-old Reuven from Olkusz and 14-year-old Miriam from Suchedniow near Kielce to concentration camps. By the end of the war, each of them had survived six camps - including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau - and a death march. Reuven and Miriam’s entire immediate families and almost all the members of their extended families were murdered in the Holocaust. Reuven and Miriam met each other in a Displaced Persons camp and emigrated to Israel in 1948.
Both coped with the horror of Nazi persecution in different ways. And their children also dealt with their parents’ trauma in their own unique way.
You can watch the recording of Part 1 here: • "The Shoah Never Came ...
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