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Sven Sonnenberg, as a child, lived with his family in North-Eastern Poland when WWII broke out in 1939. He was of mixed parentage: his mother's roots in Germany, his father a Jew. He tells the story of his Jewish-German family. They were dragged across Poland by the Nazis from one place of bizarre events to another: from ghetto to a death camp- the only possible final destination. Sven Sonnenberg survived WWII in Poland, with remnants of his shattered family. He began a new life in the orphanage under another tyranny - Communism regime. Overcoming difficult, but sometimes laughable obstacles on his rocky and steep life path, Sven graduated in 1957 from the Polytechnic of Warsaw. Then he worked in the aircraft industry until 1968 when he escaped to the US where he gladly joined Kodak. He lost his long time wife to cancer, and recently married a woman, who some unfriendly people could call a youngster, but whose presence helps Sven to chase away memories of his tragic past.

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Sven Sonnenberg was born in Poland in 1931 to a German-Jewish family and managed to survive World War II with his sister and mother by escaping, running, and hiding from the Nazis. The rest of his extended family perished in the Holocaust. He went on to study engineering, graduating with a Masters Degree in Engineering from the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. In 1968, he immigrated with his wife and son to the United States and worked as an engineer for companies including Kelsey-Hayes, Towler Hydraulics, and Kodak until his retirement in 1995. When his wife was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, he applied all his research and development skills to help prolong her life. A chronicle of his efforts is documented in his book, KEEPING HER ALIVE. His war time childhood traumas under the Nazis and his adult experiences under the Communists are documented in his memoirs, A TWO STEP JOURNEY TO HELL: GERMAN-JEWISH FAMILY UNDER FASCISM AND COMMUNISM

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