Faces of the Holocaust: Ben and Bernice Muler, Survivors

Ben and Bernice were both natives of Poland but met as exiles in Russia. Both lost nearly all their relatives, but escaped being sent to concentration camps by fleeing behind Russian lines when the Soviets invaded Poland to attack Germany. Ben was drafted by the Soviet army as a laborer. Bernice was among thousands of Jewish refugees sent east into the Ural Mountains as the Germans advanced. They met there near the end of the war and married, and decided to come to the United States because their home communities had been obliterated and because Ben had relatives in America.