Testimony 2-Cody Bareford

Ursula Levy was born in Osnabruck, Germany on May 11, 1935. Ursula and her brother, George, lived with their parents until their father was taken to a concentration camp. Ursula's mother began worrying for her children's life and decided to send them to a catholic camp in Holland. While at the camp the priest took a liking to Ursula and her brother and even converted them to Catholic and baptized them with their mother’s permission. The priest also covered for Ursula and her brother by telling others that her father was a Catholic from America. Luckily Ursula was with her brother a majority of the time, although not all the camps she visited allowed males and females together. At one of the last camps she visited she was allowed to be in the male barracks with her brother. Ursula went into detail about her time spent at camps, although she was a rather fortunate Jew compared to most. She describes how she was never abused in any way whatsoever, and nobody ever stole her food, even though it would have been very easy to. She states, “A crumb of bread was the difference between life and death.” In 1945 she was finally freed and went on to do great things with her life. She talked about how she resumed school after being free and eventually went to nursing school in Chicago which took her ten years to complete due to her marriage and having children. Despite the atrocities she faced, Ursula overcame the odds and did great things.