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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 154: Ivor Perl: Auschwitz and Dachau survivor, "I paid a terrible price for being Jewish, but how can I break the chain?"
Description: Find the rest of Jonny's podcasts right here.This is Ivor Perl, survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.Born Yitzchak Perlmutter, in a family of 11 in Mako, Hungary in 1932, Ivorβs youth and education was stolen from him in 1944.Β His orthodox Jewish childhood was stable enough, but there were always antisemites who slapped and pushed him about on the way to school - but it got far worse during World War II, because the Nazis began targeting Jews in Hungary. In 1944, when he was just 12, Ivor, along with his whole family, were abducted and put...