When I was eleven months old, the Germans invaded the town of my birth, Lodz, Poland, on September 1, 1939. Because I was so young, I was not privy to the horrors that befell the people around me.When I was eleven months old, the Germans invaded the town of my birth, Lodz, Poland, on September 1, 1939. Because I was so young, I was not privy to the horrors that befell the people around me.