Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center: Memory Keepers Story Hour

Yuval Ehrenreich tells the story of his father’s stolen childhood and his struggle to survive when he was separated from his parents. At age 7 he witnessed the family’s synagogue on Roonstrasse street in Cologne, Germany was set on fire by the Nazis on the night of Kristallnacht and weeks later he crossed the border alone in a unique Kindertransport to Belgium. Arrested near Brussels by the Gestapo at age 10, he was rescued hours before his train was to depart for Auschwitz where he had been scheduled for extermination. Later, age 11, he was hidden by the Jewish resistance with a false identity in a Catholic home for boys located deep in the Belgian countryside, and miraculously survived a raid by a platoon of heavily armed Nazi soldiers who surrounded the home so no one could escape before forcing their entry. There, he stood with 86 other Jewish children “hidden” in plain sight during the inspection and avoided discovery due to the daring ingenuity, courage, and unwavering Christian faith of a woman who risked it all to save them.

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