Holocaust Testimony: Kristine Karen - Dane Wommack

Dr. Kristine Karen was born in Poland, 1939. She describes her childhood as very extravagant, living in a modern apartment before the war, with two bathrooms and a fancy piano her mother played. In a thick accent she says “I was very happy girl!” Her father had a P.D in history and kept up with current events very frequently. It was this reason he was able to help them escape when Germany began to occupy Poland. When the Nazi's moved in, Kristine Karen and her family were forced to move out of their nice apartment and spent the next few years moving around to overcrowded apartments with other Jewish families. During this time, Kristine met a nice Nazi general in charge of keeping the area they lived in under watch. He told her she reminded him of his daughter he left home in Germany and brought her chocolate and other sweets to help her feel better. However, soon after, the families were starting to be evacuated out of the ghetto. Kristine's dad knew they had to get out of there and talked to a man named Savoy. Savoy informed him, that Kristine's family could hide in the sewers until the war was over, but it would cost them a lot of money. Kristine's dad gladly agreed to this and started to move his family into the sewers. They lived there with 10 other Jewish people for 14 months, eating bread once a day while keeping the rats away and telling each other jokes to keep each other happy. After 14 months, the family emerged from the sewer and went back to their daily lives with the war being over. However, Kristine was still teased for being a Jew during school and as a result, had to fool everyone in her class that she was a Christian. When she tried to find Savoy, the man who saved her and her family and hid them in the sewers, she discovered he was killed by a drunk driver while riding his bicycle with his daughter. He pushed her out of the way and suffered the injuries as a result. "His blood was dripping through the manhole. My mother always said he was an angel sent to save our lives." Kristine eventually graduated from a renown college in Israel and became a dentist in the United States, married to her husband, who was also a holocaust survivor who happened to live across the street from her as a child.
"I was very happy girl." - Kristine Karen
"His blood was dripping through the manhole. My mother always said he was an angel sent to save our lives." - Kristine Karen