Now, For the First Time Since Hitler Came to Power, Refugee Leads Normal Life
Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit
Jewish refugee Ilse Katz shared her life story, and harrowing escape from Europe, with the Columbia Missourian. She described the effect of Nazi laws on her life, her attempts to immigrate, her internment in Camp De Gurs, her parents deportation to eastern Death Camps and her escape across the Pyrenees mountains. ; “Now, For the First Time Since Hitler Came to Power, Refugee Leads Normal Life,” Columbia Missourian (Columbia, MO), January 26, 1944, page 1, column 2, digital image, Newspapers.com {https://www.newspapers.com/image/935034885/: accessed {Feb 4, 2026}. Originals at the State Historical Society of Missouri)
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January 26 1944, Date createdFormat
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CC BY-NC-ND; “Now, For the First Time Since Hitler Came to Power, Refugee Leads Normal Life,” Columbia Missourian (Columbia, MO), January 26, 1944, page 1, column 2, digital image, Newspapers.com {https://www.newspapers.com/image/935034885/: accessed {Feb 4, 2026}. Originals at the State Historical Society of Missouri)
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Now, For the First Time Since Hitler Came to Power, Refugee Leads Normal Life: AATH16. Archives of the Daniel Boone Regional Library. 15 Sep 2026.
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