"When the Nazis came to Szereszow, Poland, in 1940, the Riteman family was, with the rest of the Jews in the area, herded into the Pruzhany ghetto. When the trains began to move, in 1941, the Ritemans were taken to Auschwitz. Within a week at the infamous concentration camp, Mr. Riteman’s parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters were all dead. By the end of the war, he had been shifted through five camps; forced to build crematoriums, to transport bodies, to act as a human shield. When he was liberated in 1945, the 17-year-old weighed just 75 pounds.
In 1946 he came to Newfoundland to live with an aunt to become a businessman.
After 40 years of pained silence, in 1989 Mr. Riteman began to share his story. He now emphasizes the importance of educating youth about the Holocaust."
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2006-11-15 08:37:00 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
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2006-11-17 15:39:59 · answer #1 · answered by # one 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋