Cape Breton's Magazine

remember how long it took--a day or two or three--she started to walk. He could never be more thankful. So every Passover, he would send us a case of eggs. You know, that was for a few years. Even (after) the Russians came. And when the war broke out, I was looking for a job and I came to his office. He looked at me, I looked at him; he recognized me, I recognized him. To get a job and to get a little--I don't know what you call that paper, you show it to the Germans and they let you through. (A pass?) A pass. Okay. The pass--most of the time, people have it in groups. When you had an individual pass, that was some? thing like life it? self. When you had that and you heard there was going to be a killing--what they used to call "action"--if you had that paper, you could go to the gate and go out from the ghetto by yourself. And that was your life-saver. work at that company. They had many places. They had places where they used to keep cu? cumbers, and he used to make pickles. And the places where they kept the eggs. And you had to look through a light.... (Oh, candle them.) Candle them, yes. So each time, wher? ever they needed somebody, I had that passport and I could go and work. And that was my life-saver. That's how I really sur? vived, able to get in and out of the ghetto. That's just because of that Ukrainian man that my father helped his wife. She couldn't walk. But after my father put the leeches, it did the trick. She started to walk. And when he saw me and I was looking for the job, he said, "Are you the daughter of Herman Zuckerman?"--right away. I said, "Yes." He recognized me. And he gave me that pass that (said) I have to come to Anna's mother Frida (Telch) Zuckerman holding a sister Lea (Lusia), father Herman, sister Ludka, and Anna. Anna Blufarb: I was lucky to get that picture from a cousin of mine which i found after the war. She lived in New York. She had a family picture from earlier years when we were small. That's the only thing I have to show of my family because the Germans, they took our house, they took everything we had valuable, and then they killed all my family • my father, my mother...all my relatives. So the only thing I reaiiy have to remind me that there was a life, a different life • like somebody cut my life in two, and that was the life before the war, and the life after the war. And the only thing I have to show Is that picture that will say, Well, I did have a life, and those were my parents. And that's the only thing I have to remember from before the war that I could show. Nothing personal, because when I es? caped I couldn't take much with me, just my clothes. (How often did you use that pass to save yourself from an action? Was it three or ten times...?) Oh, more than that. Because each time there was a rumour that there'd be a killing.... And say we would hide in bunkers, places wherever you had. And when I went to ' hide and I was very nervous and I said, "They're going to find us here. They're going to find us here. It's not well-protected." And the woman who was in charge used to say to my D THE IbRONTO-DOMINION BANK Your Bank. Your Way Corner of Charlotte & Pitt Streets P. O. Box 117 Sydney, NS B1P6G9 Phone 567-3610 or 539-6637 • Fax 539-6337 Specialized Lighting for All Your Business Needs, Since 1981 20/20 ELECTRIC CO., LTD. THE LIGHTING COMPANY WITH VISION SPECIALIZING IN FULL SPECTRUM & QUALITY TUFFSKIN LIGHTING Sales Representatives Phone: 1-800-565-9438 throughout Atlantic Canada Fax: (902) 539-2882 BATTERED WOMEN and your children if you need help: 539-2945 TRANSITION HOUSE 61