{"id":22369,"date":"2010-08-12T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22369"},"modified":"2010-08-12T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:41:35","slug":"singing-for-her-captors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22369","title":{"rendered":"Singing For Her Captors"},"content":{"rendered":"

From nj.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

RARITAN TWP. \u2014 Judith Schneiderman still remembers her disappointment when she told the handsome, polite officer that she and her older sister Frieda weren\u2019t twins. Since they weren\u2019t, the girls were shoved toward the bathhouses and ordered to strip for their showers.<\/p>\n

Their heads were shaved and they were tossed long, gray dresses. At this point in the book \u201cI Sang to Survive<\/a>,\u201d the reader realizes how lucky Judith, three of her sisters and a best friend were. Her mother, two younger sisters and father had been separated upon the family\u2019s arrival at Auschwitz, never to be seen again.<\/p>\n

But instead of focusing on the horror, Schneiderman quickly launches into a description of the beautiful women who served as the kappo, the Jewish police. She tells how the girls pass the glare of a barracks window and see their reflections. She can\u2019t tell which one she is and whispers to Frieda to raise her hand to clear the confusion. Then the girl who was then Judith Rosenberg of Rachov, Czechoslovakia, laughs, saying, \u201cOh my God, that one is me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 1951 Schneiderman and her husband Paul \u2014 they met at a displaced persons camp following their liberation \u2014 have lived in Raritan Township. About 10 years ago she decided it was time \u2014 for her four children and nine grandchildren \u2014 to write her story. She wanted it to be \u201cdifferent\u201d from so many of the books she\u2019s read by Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From nj.com: RARITAN TWP. \u2014 Judith Schneiderman still remembers her disappointment when she told the handsome, polite officer that she and her older sister Frieda weren\u2019t twins. Since they weren\u2019t, the girls were shoved toward the bathhouses and ordered to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[23231,13048,23229,23228,23230,23232],"class_list":["post-22369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holocaust","tag-bathhouses","tag-holocaust-survivors","tag-jewish-police","tag-judith-rosenberg","tag-kappo","tag-schneiderman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t