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Henry Welch, Homepage

A Passover in Rome

A personal biography of Rose Kryger and our history, based on interviews with Rose: A Passover in Rome, complete in open pdf format.

You can also purchase it for $18 in nicely boundbook form from Abe Books. You may find this more convenient than reading it on-line.

Most of the book describes the World War II experiences of Aunt Rose, my mother Ghenia, and myself. In 1939, we were Polish Jews that had not adopted Soviet citizenship. As such, we became prisoners of war, and were shipped off to a Siberian prisoner-of-war camp. With Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, we were freed, but obviously could not return. We eventually traveled to Kazakhstan and other exotic places, where death rates were almost as high as they were in the parts of the Soviet Union that were at war with Germany. Eventually, at the end of the war, we found our way back to Germany and eventually on to Israel.

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This website is hosted by my cousin Ivo Welch.