Four Perfect Pebbles

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Marion Blumenthal Lazan was born in Bremen, Germany, on December 20th, 1934, one year after the official start of the Holocaust and targeted efforts to rid Germany of any and all groups considered by the Nazi regime to be inferior or problematic. Marion was too young to remember these early years of the Holocaust, but knows how they shaped the years which followed and the experiences she had living in the Westerbork transit camp and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, as well as aboard the infamous Death Train. Marion and her family survived the Holocaust, but her father, Walter, died two months later of Typhus.

Marion’s Hope and Resilience in the Face of Adversity, which she shares with her family, is what characterizes her memoir as a particular moving account of the Holocaust. It is a memoir filled with both tragedy and an ever-enduring hope that the Blumenthals would make it through the ordeal and one day get to experience a better life. Marion kept this hope alive in the Bergen-Belsen camp through her collecting of four perfect pebbles, which became an enduring

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