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‘I sat by her bed and I started writing’: Madison woman recalls Jewish parents journey out of Poland
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By Susan Braden
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Photo: Kelly Goddard / For Hearst Connecticut Media
MADISON A beat-up, burgundy leather purse looks perfectly ordinary, but it is part of one family’s story.
It is a story of sacrifice, struggle, adapting to outside forces and, finally, thriving.
The old pocketbook, its lining torn by the many years and many miles of a grueling journey to several countries and three continents, belonged to Chana, 26, newly married to David Sobocki, 32, in 1940.
The young Jewish couple, like tens of thousands of Jews, escaped with their lives from Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, seeking a new home, a safe harbor. The Soviet Union had already annexed eastern Poland at the time. ....

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