Gershon was born in 1942 into a family living under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands.

Recognizing the life-threatening danger for Jewish people, his family sent him to live with non-Jews. Shortly after, Gershon’s mother and father were killed in Sobibor extermination camp, a fate he escaped. He doesn’t remember much because he was just a small child, but he cried uncontrollably for weeks once liberated and was described as a wild animal.

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