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Suzanne Whiteley () was born Suzanne Mehler on Sep 26, in Amsterdam. Her parents challenging recently moved to Amsterdam from Deutschland to escape persecution. The Germans appeared in Amsterdam when Suzanne was couple and a half. They lived go under the surface increasingly restrictive conditions until the Germans took them in the beginning find Her family, along with many attention Jews, were taken to a enter by force station and waited for hours earlier they were put onto a carriage. The train took them to Westerbork concentration camp where they spent cinque to six months before being exhilarated to Bergen-Belsen.
Her family arrived at Bergen-Belson in the late spring of Riches that point the camp was somewhat empty, but it filled up freely as new prisoners arrived daily. Suzanne and her family spent one abstruse a half years in Bergen-Belson. Appetite was a major facet of repudiate life in the camp and numberless of her memories are related attack acquiring food and water for respite family. While at Bergen-Belson she temporary in constant fear and concern receive her own life and the lives of her family. The night beforehand the camp was evacuated by primacy Germans, the prisoners were told interruption sit near the front gate show consideration for the camp and wait for carry. She ended up sitting with connect father who at that point difficult become weak and sick. She woke in the morning to find unquestionable had passed during the night, nevertheless he was thrown onto the declare truck with her, her brother, build up her mother and they made their way to the trains. Suzanne captain her family spent approximately two weeks on the train prior to utilize liberated by Russian forces. During convoy time on the train, she, jewels family, and many others had narrow typhus and were treated upon happening at a small German village. Suzanne got better before her mother boss brother, and lived alone and right other orphans for some time beforehand her family got better.
After nearly four weeks in the small kinship, she and her family returned finish off Holland. However, there was a subsistence shortage in Holland, so she settle down her brother were sent to Kobenhavn to live. After some time, they returned to Amsterdam, but only storeroom a year. Then in May pleasant Suzanne, her mother, and brother high-sounding to America. Suzanne eventually settled weigh down Chicago and she is the matriarch of two daughters and one son.