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NAT SHAFFIR (NATHAN SPITZER)

NAT SHAFFIR (NATHAN SPITZER)

IAȘI/ROMANIA 1936

DENUNCIATION INTERNMENT IN GHETTO DEPORTATION OF NEARLY THE WHOLE FAMILY ANTISEMITISM IN THE USSR BRIBE TO LEAVE ISRAEL USA

1942: Family was denounced by a catholic priest

Dispossessed and sent to Iași ghetto

Almost all family members were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald by Hungarian gendarmerie and murdered

After war: family experienced Antisemitism and discrimination under Soviet rule

Application for an exit permit to Palestine was denied

Father bribed local officials to secure passage to Israel in 1950

1961 Immigrated to the U.S.

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C. 07-31-2018