Barbara+Ledermann+Rodbell

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 * Barbara Ledermann Rodbell

__**Family Background**__// father-Franze Ledermann sister-Susanna [|//http://www.pbs.org/daringtoresist/barbara.html////] http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/idcard.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006225
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 * //Survivor of the Holocaust*
 * considered themselves more German than Jewish
 * mother-Ilse Ledermann

__**During the Holocaust**__ http://www.texnews.com/1998/religion/frank1114.html http://www.pbs.org/daringtoresist/barbara.html http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/phi_child_falseid_uu.htm

__//**After the Holocaust**//__ > http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1994/rodbell-autobio.html > http://www.texnews.com/1998/religion/frank1114.html
 * emigrated to the U.S. in Nov. 1943
 * continued dancing, acting, and modeling
 * joined Ringling Brothers Circus
 * quit circus b/c of travel and got job in Baltimore, Maryland selling cosemetics
 * met Martin Rodbell and had four children..."two for me and two for my sister ."
 * found out parents and sister died in the ovens of Auswitzch on November 19


 * //__Quotes__//**
 * "I had always been willful and very much my own person. If I believed in something, I treid to follow up on it."


 * "My father just didn't want to believe like that [genocide of the Jews] was possible-its very understandable. He just couldn't believe the humanistic Germans he knew would do such a thing."


 * I was exactly the right age to be on my own. If I had been younger, like my sister, I would have stayed with my parents. If I were older with children, I just don't know how I could have done it."


 * "If somebody would stop you, you could show the papers and a big smile, with the make-up still on, and it worked. I know I was scared and worried about it, but it never stopped me."


 * "All the Jews just cane down the stairs and climbed on trucks. Its very tempting to follow suit if everybody does what they are told."


 * "The big thing was 'the Americans will come,the Americans will come, the Americans will come."


 * //__Barbara's Message for Teenagers Today__//**
 * "You always have to think for yourself."