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See larger Tristan Spinski/Staff Abe Price, 89, lives in East Naples. Originally from Poland and the youngest of five brothers, Price was captured by the Nazis and sent to work in a slave labor camp as a teen. Price escaped his captors during a death march and evaded the Nazis until the war ended. Price and his late wife, Sala, immigrated the United States in 1951.

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Tristan Spinski/Staff Abe Price, 89, lives in East Naples. Originally from Poland and the youngest of five brothers, Price was captured by the Nazis and sent to work in a slave labor camp as a teen. Price escaped his captors during a death march and evaded the Nazis until the war ended. Price and his late wife, Sala, immigrated the United States in 1951.

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  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Abe Price, 89, lives in East Naples. Originally from Poland and the youngest of five brothers, Price was captured by the Nazis and sent to work in a slave labor camp as a teen. Price escaped his captors during a death march and evaded the Nazis until the war ended. Price and his late wife, Sala, immigrated the United States in 1951.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Abe Price shows his identification number, 'B3266,' tattooed by the Nazis on his left arm.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Anatole Kurdsjuk, 77, lives in North Fort Myers with his wife, Linda. Kurdsjuk, originally from Russia, is the youngest of five children and was born after his family escaped the gulags of Siberia in the early 1930s, only to captured by the Nazis seven years later in Ukraine. His family was forced into the slave labor camps, and at age 10, he worked cleaning machinery at a Nobel dynamite factory. Kurdsjuk was liberated by Gen. Patton's Third Army, who then helped him locate his parents. The Kurdsjuk's immigrated to the United States in 1949, and Abe Kurdsjuk went on to write a book, 'The Long Walk Home,' about his family's experience during the Holocaust and the Stalin regime.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Anatole Kurdsjuk, 77, lives in North Fort Myers with his wife, Linda. Kurdsjuk, originally from Russia, is the youngest of five children and was born after his family escaped the gulags of Siberia in the early 1930s, only to captured by the Nazis seven years later in Ukraine. His family was forced into the slave labor camps, and at age 10, he worked cleaning machinery at a Nobel dynamite factory. Kurdsjuk was liberated by Gen. Patton's Third Army, who then helped him locate his parents. The Kurdsjuk's immigrated to the United States in 1949, and Abe Kurdsjuk went on to write a book, 'The Long Walk Home,' about his family's experience during the Holocaust and the Stalin regime.
  • Photo courtesy of Anatole Kurdsjuk Anatole Kurdsjuk wears a U.S. Army cap, shoes and trousers given to him by Gen. Patton's troops in Wetzlar, Germany in 1945.
  • Photo courtesy of Anatole Kurdsjuk Anatole Kurdsjuk, left, is photographed in April 1945 as he is reunited with his mother after six weeks of separation from his parents.
  • Photo courtesy of Anatole Kurdsjuk A photograph of the barracks in Wurgendorf slave camp where Anatole Kurdsjuk lived under Nazi control.
  • Tristan Spinski/Staff Rosette Priever Gerbosi, 79, lives in Pelican Bay in Naples with her husband, Peter. During WWII, Gerbosi's parents sent their daughter into hiding to live with a friend in Piegut, France - a town free of Nazi occupation. During her stay away there, the Nazis rounded up Gerbosi's parents and sent hem to their deaths in the concentration camps. Gerbosi and her older brother, Bernard Priever, were the only two members of their immediate family to survive the Holocaust.
  • Photo courtesy of Rosette Priever Gerbosi The last photograph taken of Rosette Priever Gerbosi, center, at age 10, with her parents in Paris, France before she went into hiding in the countryside and the Nazis sent her parents to their deaths in the concentration camps.

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