Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 2
Series: A Grain of Sand
From: Charles McGuigan
Length: 00:28:05
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Jay Ipson and his family had narrowly escaped extermination by the Nazis on several occasions. After liberation Jay's father, a man who spoke seven languages, was put in charge of five cooperatives under the new regime. His father then did something that branded him enemy of the people and the small family was on the way again, ultimately making it to Checkpoint Charley and the American Zone.
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Jay Ipson is a survivor. He told us last time how he and his father Israel and mother Edna managed to avoid selections and deportations in their native Kuvna, Lithuania. To escape escalating Nazi aggression, the three moved into the hiding place on a farm thirty miles from their home. They were joined by more than a dozen family members—Ipps and Butromovitches. The hiding place was dug by Jay’s father at the bottom of a potato hole. It measured nine by twelve by four feet high. For six months the Ipps and their extended family lived in these cramped quarters with just enough oxygen to survive and absolutely no light. When Lithuania was finally liberated, all sixteen people emerged. Jay was just nine old. He and the others had endured an unending night, but with the liberation hope seemed to stream back into the world. The first thing they all did was get cleaned up...
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Rob Shinnick
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 05:42 AM | Permalink
Excellent
A very moving story, well told, with great atmospheric music.