The Boomer Effect

A Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America


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Stefan Hess shares his account of his family's struggle to survive the Holocaust. Stefan and Marion witnessed their father beaten beyond recognition, and somehow survived in a place where "the children were looking for bread between the corpses." Also a mother and father who were willing to sacrifice everything for their children.

From the Hesses' prosperous pre-war life in Germany to their desperate ride in a bulletstrafed boxcar through the rubble of the collapsing Third Reich, Faris Cassell author of the book; Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America also joins Stefan and shares their lives with us.

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