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Summary Of Jonas-Rosenzweig's Death

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“We have to do it for the ones murdered” (Hertwig 1). Just a few words which had enough power to convince Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig to return to a place that caused her endless hours of missed sleep, and years of distress. As Monika Hertwig, the daughter of Amon Goeth and Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, holocaust survivor as well as one of Schindler's jews, walk through the old villa at the Plaszow Memorial Monument in Poland, many years worth of dreadful memories rush through Jonas-Rosenzweig's mind. In the year 1942, a young Helen Sternlicht was doing her daily tasks in the Plaszow labor camp when Commandant Amon Goeth approached her and selected her to be one of his housemaids. For 2 years her and another maid, named Helena Hirsch, shared a room

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