6/22/2023 0 Comments Hope and Honor by Sidney Shachnow![]() ![]() Once her children were in safekeeping, Shachnow’s mother escaped while on work detail and reunited with her sons. Near death, his mother set up his care with a family in Kaunas. He nearly died from starvation and malnutrition. ![]() He lived in hiding for months in a small room with little food. Nazi troops rounded up all the children in the camp and marched them to The Ninth Fort for execution or to Auschwitz to be gassed. His mother smuggled his younger brother out of the camp and arranged for his care with a sea captain and his family. Shachnow and his brother narrowly escaped death only days before Kovno’s gruesome “Children’s Action,” of March 27–28, 1944. After several years, his father escaped while on a work detail and joined Russian partisans. To increase his chances of survival, Shachnow performed heavy manual labor under harsh conditions at a very young age. He watched helplessly as almost every single one of his extended family and his friends were slaughtered. Through the power of perseverance, Shachnow endured countless brutalities over the course of three years. Nazis imprisoned his family and friends in the Kovno camp. Major General Sidney Shachnow Imprisonment and separation ![]()
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