Use Your Words

Solomon Zimm: A Prisoner of War


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Solomon Zimm, Sol for short, is the brother of Alan Zimm (one of our other featured Holocaust survivors this season). Alan and Sol were the only members of their family to survive the Holocaust, and Sol's story is incredible. Sol was first captured in 1939 as part of the Polish army defending Hitler's invasion, and was put in a POW camp. Afterwards, the Nazis transferred Sol from concentration camp to concentration camp throughout the war, spending most of his time at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, every hair on his body was shaved; he got a number tattooed on his arm, and was dumped in a bath of lye to prevent the spread of lice. Seventh grader Grayson tells us that Sol's survival is nothing short of a miracle, and it is one that you have to hear to believe. 

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Use Your WordsBy Sam Futrell & Rebekah O'Dell

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