List held key to Holocaust survivor’s life
Mystery of his past revealed at archives
Miki Schwartz was 13 when the Nazis came for him.
In 1944, Hitler’s storm troopers packed his family into a windowless cattle car for a four-day train ride to Auschwitz.
“Werner von Braun needed workers. There weren’t enough Germans to do the work, so they took from the (concentration) camps, slave laborers,” Schwartz said. “See here — here is my name, Mikolaus Schwartz, crossed out. Why, I do not know.”
By Lisa Petrillo
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
July 19, 2007
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