His Mother Turned Left at Auschwitz

Ernie Hollander and his family arrived at Auschwitz in 1944. He was seventeen years old and on his coat he wore a large yellow Star of David. His mother had sewn it there for him. Ernie and his family had traveled three days by train without food in a crowded cattle car from Iloshvo, a town in the Carpathian Mountains in what was then Hungary.

Ernie's father had been head of the local rabbinical council and a respected member of the community until the Nazis came and everything changed. From then on, Ernie's

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