Courage and resilience in the face of mindless evil.
A story never to be forgotten.
discovered letter she had written to her family.
Photograph courtesy/ABC7 New York
As a captured resistance fighter, young Ilse Loewenburg jumped from a moving
train while enroute to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. She later
escaped to Berlin, Germany where for nine months she eluded capture by the Nazis.
Unfortunately, she was eventually re-captured and sent to prison.
Ilse lost her parents, two sisters, and her husband during the war. She alone
survived, and later immigrated to America where she settled in New York.
She later remarried and began a new life for herself.
But this is not the end of Ilse's story, thanks to an enterprising
flea market 'heirloom hunter' named Chelsey Brown
who recently uncovered a long lost letter from the past...
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