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Born in the small town of Kamionka, Poland, on December 11, 1922. Frank Blaichman was 16 years old when the German army invaded the western and central parts of Poland in September 1939. The family were among other Jews living in the town.

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Young Frank immediately began taking daring risks in an effort to help his parents and his six brothers and sisters. The family needed some way to make money, so Frank took to the road illegally.

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Frank bought chickens, honey, butter, grains, and meat from the farmers and sold these products in the cities, where he would buy tobacco, yarn, and saccharin to sell to the farmers. The risks of traveling without papers or the required Star of David were risky, but he still didn't for the Jews.

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“I am very proud of what I did all those years,” he says. “The reality was we had nothing to lose, and our way to survive was to fight.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNdU1VKWMgU&t=23s

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Rather Die Fighting: A Memoir of World War II - audiobook - Frank Blaichman