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Page iii From Hell To Redemption A Memoir of the Holocaust by BORIS KACEL University Press of Colorado

Page iv Copyright 1998 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information ServicesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kacel, Boris, 1921 From hell to redemption: a memoir of the Holocaust / Boris Kacel. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-87081-460-5 (cb) I. Kacel, Boris, 1921 . 2. JewsLatviaRigaBiography. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (19391945)LatviaRigaPersonal narratives. 4. Riga (Latvia)Biography. I. Title. DSI35.L33K33 1988 940.53'18'092dc21 97-35507 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v Dedication I dedicate this book in everlasting memory of my mother, Fanja, my sisters, Dora and Ljuba, and my brother, Leiba, all of whom perished in the Riga massacre of November 30, 1941. I also dedicate this book to my father, Abram, with whom I spent my entire incarceration period and who passed away on April 19, 1990, in the United States. I also dedicate this book to all my relatives and friends who perished during the Holocaust. I sincerely hope my children, Sharon and Steven, and my son-in-law and daughter-in-law, Robert and Robin, will fully understand and respect the cruel exploitation their father had to endure during the Nazi era and that, despite this hardship, he ultimately found the strength to build a new life. It is my heartfelt wish that my grandchildren, Benjamin, Elizabeth, and Aaron, will understand the evil power of man's inhumanity to man, which haunted their innocent grandfather as a youth. I also want them to be aware that such crimes should never again be committed, against the Jews or any other group of people. I want especially to express profound appreciation to my wife, Tamara, also a Holocaust survivor, for her extensive cooperation and for accepting my absence for innumerable hours while I was occupied with writing my memoirs.

Page vii Contents Preface ix 1 German Troops March Into Riga 1 1 My Move to the Ghetto 19 3 Life in the Little Ghetto 39 4 My New Lease on Life 71 5 My Kasernierung at Ilgeciem Cement Factory 83 6 Kaiserwald, the First Concentration Camp 97 7 The Journey to Estonia 117 8 My Fight for Survival in Vaivare 123 9 Sonda, My Next Home 151 10 The Road to Germany 163 11 Stutthof Extermination Camp 169 12 Buchenwald's Labor Camp Number One 191 13 My Escape to Freedom 211 14 In Search of Father in Magdeburg 225 15 The Town of Egeln and the Discovery of Father 253 16 My Escape From the Soviets and Life in Weilheim 269 17 America, My New Home 287 Index 313

Page ix Preface As incredible as it may seem, many people deny that the awesome event known as the Holocaust ever happened, despite the existing proof. It is, therefore, incumbent upon every survivor to tell his or her story for the sake of posterity; as an eyewitness, I want to share my experiences. Since the human memory is relatively short, I consider a written history to be the best way to preserve the past for the enlightenment of the future. I wrote this book in my senior years, not because I wanted to but because I felt obligated to speak for the now-muted voices of my family and friends lost in the war. I am one of the few to be able to tell what happened to me and to thousands of other Jews under Nazi occupation in Riga, Latvia, and in other countries. My own suffering began soon after high school, when I was caught between two powerful forcesStalin's communism and Hitler's Nazism. Ruthlessness and repression were characteristic of both of these ideologies, and the stories told here represent many years of battling to overcome these evils.

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