Seven Concentrations of Hell: Natan Żelechower's Journey from the Ghetto to Buchenwald
Natan Żelechower came from a well-off Jewish family in Warsaw. He lost almost all his loved ones in the Holocaust, including his mother and ten siblings. He himself survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and several concentration camps. He came within a stone's throw of death in Buchenwald. This was just after the camp was liberated by the Americans. A month had passed since the Germans began "deporting" the inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto. Thirty-seven-year-old Natan Żelechower believed he had found a safe haven that would allow him and his loved ones to survive the "great […]