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Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.”
Left: Chaim Herszman in Germany in 1946, Right: John Carr, author of Escape From the Ghetto, the story of his father s audacious escape from the Nazis. (Courtesy John Carr)
LONDON It was the moment that undoubtedly saved Chaim Herszman’s life. In February 1940, the 13-year-old stabbed and fatally wounded a Nazi guard in the Lodz Ghetto who he believed was about to shoot his younger brother.
Herszman fled the ghetto, leaving behind a family he would never see again and commenced an epic three-year-journey across Nazi-occupied Europe which eventually took him to the safety of Britain. Over its course, he assumed multiple identities, stowed away on a German troop train and, while being sheltered in the heart of the Third Reich by a member of the Wehrmacht, wandered the streets of Berlin dressed in a Hitler Youth unifo
Daisy said the family was now in a dilemma after the burial, noting that according to Turkana culture, a man should be buried at the home of his first wife.
Elizabeth Ang ela, an elder sister to the deceased, said that the body should be exhumed and interred in his first home to avert a curse on the family.
“I only want the body of my brother brought here, to his first home, to save this family from death. What his second wife has done will cause untold suffering,” warned Ang ela.
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Daisy said the family was now in a dilemma after the burial, noting that according to Turkana culture, a man should be buried at the home of his first wife.
Elizabeth Ang ela, an elder sister to the deceased, said that the body should be exhumed and interred in his first home to avert a curse on the family.
“I only want the body of my brother brought here, to his first home, to save this family from death. What his second wife has done will cause untold suffering,” warned Ang ela.
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