Biografia De Jeannine Burk. The Holocaust.

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Jeannine Burk.
1. Her occupation was being with her family until they get separated.
“My father took me on a streetcar. This memory is etched in my mind because it is the last time I ever saw myfather. We rode to the end of the line. I remember getting off with him. I remember walking what appeared to me to be a long distance. He knocked on a door and a woman answered. I went inside. Thatwas the last time I ever saw my father.”
Jeannine Burk.

2. She was part of a family of four, her sister, her brother and her father.
“There must have been a network of underground resourceswhere you could inquire about hiding Jews. My father had found a place for my brother to go. He had a place for my sister to go. He found this place for me to go.” Jeannine Burk.

3. She was Jewswith the part of her family. But she was left by her father in the house of a women for hiding because she was a jews.

1. “ Some neighbors snitched on us. One morning at 5:00 o'clockthe Gestapo went through the neighbor's house, jumped over the brick wall and pounded on the room where my parents were sleeping. They broke down the door. The Gestapo took my father and threw him in the truck.They wanted to take my mother, but she wouldn't go. My mother told them, "You can shoot me here, but I will not leave my daughter." The Gestapo pulled the blankets off my sister and saw that she was in abody cast. The officer said that they would be back later for them. And that is what they did”.
“By some miracle my mother made one last phone call to a Catholic hospital, and they agreed totake my sister. An ambulance came to get her. The Germans used to take over hospitals for their own use. However, the one place they would not go was the isolation ward. The nuns felt that it wouldbe better for my sister to risk contracting a disease rather than to risk letting the Germans find a Jewish child. My sister lay in bed in the isolation ward for two years.”
“Once my sister was...
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