Marc Gottlieb's Obituary
Marc's father was a classical violinist who also started a small jazz band. Then trumpet player quit the band because Marc's father was a Jew. One night the Gesstopo came to the door and the one that apprehended his father was the former band member. He told Marc's father to be quiet. He would talk for him. He told the authority that he took him to that the whole family had their Papers and were leaving Germany. When his father started to speak, the former trumpet player hit him in the face and told him he could not speak. After coming home, Marc's father stayed in the apt. for several months while Marc and his mother gathered up the necessary papers. They left within the next few months for Amsterdam and then by boat to America. They were literally saved by the enemy. Marc knows of one other little boy who fled with his mother to France, but he was later killed by the Nozis. As far as he could learn, he was the only one who survived from his school.
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