He was imprisoned for one year in a Siberian hard labor camp until the wars end in 1945. Konover often stated that he "lived minute to minute. not hour to hour." He survived the war with his brother Harold. but lost his parents. five siblings. brothersinlaw. nieces. nephews. E1528 extended family members. friends and his entire way of life in the Holocaust. In 1949 he immigrated to the United States. after first living as a refugee in France and Cuba. In the United States. he met his oldest brother David for the first time. David had left Poland before Simon was born.
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