Surviving the Holocaust: Joseph Alexander
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Chabad of Downtown San Diego and San Diego Public Library present Joseph Alexander, a survivor of the Holocaust, in a community discussion with a most remarkable man. Born in 1922, Mr. Alexander lived peacefully in Blonie, Poland until Nazi Germany invaded in 1939. By 1940, the Germans had begun transporting Jews to the Warsaw ghetto. Mr. Alexander eventually endured 12 different concentration camps, including Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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