When they fled their native Poland in January 1940. Stefan Rozenfeld and his mother escaped certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Only weeks after they departed their home in Lodz. the Jews of Lodz were rounded up and crammed into a ghetto that served as a staging ground for deportations to Nazi extermination camps. The Rozenfelds made their way to Belgium. where they reunited with Stefans father and secured American immigration visas. However. unable to obtain passage to the United States before the Nazi invasion of Belgium in May 1940. they narrowly evaded the Nazis once again. securing safety in France. But when France capitulated to the Nazis in June. 1940. the Rozenfelds were trapped.
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