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I was born on 1 February 1921 in Praszka, Poland. My parents were Genia (née Faitlowitz) and David Kon, and we lived in a manor on my father’s estate. (After the war our name was spelled ‘Kohn’.) 

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When my mother married my father he was a widower with three young boys. He was thirty-five years old and my mother was twenty-two. The boys were Nathan who was nine years old, Zygmund, seven, and Staszek, five. My mother’s parents wanted her to marry my father because he was rich and had a very good reputation. He was mayor of the town and well respected in Praszka. 

 

They had five more children: Ignaz was the oldest, I came next, then Sevek, who was two years younger than me. Madja was a toddler when our father died and Władek was just a tiny baby.