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Morris Breitbart was born in Szczercow, Poland on December 25, 1921. When the war broke out in September 1939, the Germans burned his town to the ground and forced the people to the Lodz ghetto. En route from the Lodz ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp in 1943, where his parents, two sisters, and most of his extended family were killed in the gas chambers, Morris escaped from the transport train. He remained in hiding for the duration of the war through 1944 in the farmhouse of an elderly woman, first in her attic and then in a hole under a stable. During that time, he kept a diary. Awaiting a Miracle: The Holocaust Diaries of Morris Breitbart is a poignant, first person account of that terrible time.