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Holocaust Survivor: Vera Gara
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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: VERA GARA For my women centered event, I chose to listen to the story of Vera Gara, an Austrian Jew from Vienna. Her father was highly decorated with medals from the First World War, which gained him a prestigious position in his country, and he owned a very successful meat processing company. In spite of his success, her father was unlawfully arrested and charged with fraud in 1938 by the Nazis who wanted his business. A year later he was released on bail and he joined his family in Hungary. In March 1944 the Germans took full control over Hungary and soon afterwards they began deporting people to concentration camps. Vera and her family were sent to Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Austria where her father died of injuries suffered during a beating. Finally, in June 1945 Vera and her mother were liberated and returned to Hungary. Soon...
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