Survivors - Paula Kelman - Born in 1927, Czestochowa, Poland - Young Polish Girl Cheated Death Through Her Wits and Her Jewish Faith, Though It Was Tested

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › September 18, 2007

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In one moment Paula Kelman was a 12-year-old girl, her hair hanging wildly down her back as she skated the frozen surface of a pond near her home.

And in the next, her sister had hastily cut her hair to her chin, rubbed her face with rouge and slipped her into a pair of oversized heels.

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Survivors - Paula Kelman - Born in 1927, Czestochowa, Poland - Young Polish Girl Cheated Death Through Her Wits and Her Jewish Faith, Though It Was Tested

Under German occupation in 1939, selections were held each day in the Jewish ghetto of Czestochowa, Poland. Jews would line up in the streets and those deemed too young or too old for work...

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