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The Girl With the Apple An amazing and true story by Herman Rosenblat   This is worth the read – now to be made into a movie. Source:Katinkahesselink August 1942. Piotrkow , Poland The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited anxiously. All the men, women and children of Piotrkow’s Jewish ghetto had been herded into a square. Word had gotten  around that we were being moved. My father had only  recently died from typhus, which had run rampant  through the crowded ghetto. My greatest fear was  that our family would be separated. ‘Whatever you do,’ Isidore, my eldest brother, whispered to me, ‘don’t tell them your age. Say you’re sixteen.   ...