Gerda Leshin

In April 1939, her family left Germany, aided by a passport her father purchased on the black market to import meat from Holland. Just before Pesach, they moved to England, where she remembers the outbreak of the war.

Mrs. Leshin attended public school and Talmud Torah. Her story is one of escape, not survival. Her first husband passed away in 1955, and she had one child from her first marriage and none from her second. Today, Mrs. Leshin lives in Passaic with her son.

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