TW: Deals with extreme antisemitism, genocide, hate speech, dehumanization, and abuse. “We were loaded onto trains and we were taken away to - we didn’t know where . . . we survived together.” Elli Friedmann was born in 1931 in Samorin, Czechoslovakia. She grew up in a modest, religious home with her parents and her brother, Armin. Her father owned a general store, and in his free time, he would study the Talmud (a compilation of rabbinic discussions about Jewish law). They attended synagogue on Sabbath and holidays.