Cholem Sapsai
“I believe that there are higher powers, higher than us, God.”
Cholem was interned in Kaunas ghetto with his mother and father. Prior to this, his brother was arrested on the way home from work. A neighbor saw him in a truck headed towards Kaunas Ninth Fort. They never saw him again. Cholem and his father survived Dachau and were liberated by the American army. In 2002, he received confirmation of his mother’s death in Stutthof concentration camp.
“Everyone of us has his own fate and I was just lucky. God was protecting me or some other powers because there were a lot of situations where I could have been caught or killed but somehow I wasn’t. I was just lucky to survive…”
“I believe that there are higher powers, higher than us, God.”
Cholem was interned in Kaunas ghetto with his mother and father. Prior to this, his brother was arrested on the way home from work. A neighbor saw him in a truck headed towards Kaunas Ninth Fort. They never saw him again. Cholem and his father survived Dachau and were liberated by the American army. In 2002, he received confirmation of his mother’s death in Stutthof concentration camp.
“Everyone of us has his own fate and I was just lucky. God was protecting me or some other powers because there were a lot of situations where I could have been caught or killed but somehow I wasn’t. I was just lucky to survive…”
