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Neuburger ENG 101-130 27, March 2012 Survival Testimony Ursula Levy I watched a video about a holocaust Survivor named Ursula Levy. She was born on May 11, 1935. She grew up with a mom, dad, and brother who is five years older. Ursulas father owned a textile business that had been in the family for generations. On February 3, 1938 Ursulas dad and uncle were captured and sent to a concentration camp. In 1939 they came home with gangrene, a few days later her uncle passed away. Then a few months later her father passed away in the same year. Ursulas first memory of her mother was of her and her mother sleeping in the same bed, when Ursula got scared because she heard a dog bark. When she heard the dog she started to cry. Then her mom wrapped her arms around her. The fear went away as soon as she did so. Another memory of her mother was that her mother sang all the time. One of the most popular songs of that time was called I dance with you into heaven the seventh heaven of love. Her mother taught Ursulas to sing childrens songs. Growing up Ursula didnt really know for sure if she was Jewish or not. Ursulas mom sent her and her brother to Holland where they would be safer. Ursula and her brother went to a concentration camp on April of 1939. Then on April of 1943 they left the camp. While staying in Holland they received letters written by their mother up until 1940-1941. Thats when her mother went to a camp. In 1940 the Germans invaded Holland. While Ursula was in Holland they went to other concentration camps. In one of the camps it was a mens baric, Ursula was able to sleep with her brother in a downstairs house.

Ursula said that up stairs there was a couple of men staying there the floors werent that good and the only thing they had to use was a bucket which they sometimes werent able to dump. While Ursula and her brother were in a camp they got on a train and they stayed on this train for 13 days. The one thing Ursula remembered was that one of the Jews started running around and said were free! Ursula looked up and saw that the Germans had come and was taking the Jews away from the Nazis. Ursula got out of the train, and watched the Germans pull the Jews corpses out of the train. A few years later she moved to the United States and got married and had two children, but then later got a divorce. The two quotes that stuck out to me in this video was that she would always run and play in the woods. And Her brother always had her back no matter what.