Inspiring Story: Holocaust Survivor Recounts her Harrowing Tale of Survival

World War II was certainly one of the darkest days of human history, if not the gloomiest, and the worst part of it was the Holocaust which resulted in the deaths of more than 11 million deaths. It unveiled the horrors that one human was willing to inflict on another. While millions lost their lives to the brutal Nazi reign, many did survive to tell a tale of human spirit and the resilience to survive.

We recently came across one such story of a woman who lived through the grim times and could not keep ourselves from sharing it with you. Jacqueline Kimmelstiel, born in Frankfurt, Germany in the late 1920s, went through it all in the early years of her life, when all that we are concerned with is looking hip and being popular on the social media.

Mrs. Kimmelstiel and her family spent 12 years navigating France, city after city and town after town, trying to escape the Nazis. The closest she came to leading a normal childhood was, she remembers, for a brief time in France, when she even received Hebrew education. But the peace in her life was short-lived as the Germans soon started to arrive. She went through Lougratte, Bellac, and Nice trying to escape the massacre.

She and her mother survived Lyon hiding with eight other women in a convent with the nuns. She recalls how she would see convoys of people brought to the train station every day. Another incident she remembers is spotting her Hebrew instructor being marched to the station and how she barely survived getting captured after he ignored her when she waived at him.

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