Od Ghetto Inmates - Alina Szapocznikow, Chava Rosenfarb, David Beigelman, Heda Margolius Kovaly, Henryk Ross, Henry Morgentaler, Jack Tram (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Alina Szapocznikow, Chava Rosenfarb, David Beigelman, Heda Margolius Kovaly, Henryk Ross, Henry Morgentaler, Jack Tramiel, Jacob Rosenberg, Jurek Becker, Lucille Eichengreen, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Mendel Grossman, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Noah Flug, Oskar Rosenfeld, Rudolf Margolius, Ruth Minsky Sender, Simon Srebnik. Excerpt: Henry Morgentaler, (born March 19, 1923) is a Canadian physician and prominent pro-choice advocate who has fought numerous pro-choice battles. His youth was shadowed by World War II and incarceration at Dachau for being Jewish. After the war, Morgentaler immigrated to Canada where he went into medical practice. After learning of the many women desperately wanting to abort their pregnancy, Dr. Morgentaler challenged anti-abortion laws first in Quebec and then in other provinces. Morgentaler was successful, arguing that the laws were harmful to women and against women's rights. In 2008, Dr. Morgentaler was awarded the Order of Canada. Heniek (Henry) Morgentaler was born in od, Poland, about 120 kilometres southwest of Warsaw. His parents were Golda Nitka and Josef Morgentaler. Morgentaler's father, Josef, was active in the socialist Jewish Labour Bund. Josef Morgentaler was a City Councillor for the Bund. Anti-Semitic prejudice was common. Henry's future wife, Chava Rosenfarb, recalled that Henry was afraid to go to school: "Polish kids ran after him and threw stones at him. It was a normal thing. It was a general attitude, a looking-down attitude. It was a very common thing to hate Jews." During the German occupation of Poland, a Jewish ghetto in od was created and Jews were not allowed to leave it. Josef Morgentaler was arrested and killed by the Gestapo. During the Holocaust, Morgentaler lived with his mother, Golda, and brother, Abraham, in the od ghetto until August, ..."