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Adam Paluch of Mundelein was taken by the Nazis as a child, and sent to the notorious Majdanek prison camp in Poland.

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Paluch walks up the ramp that leads to the German rail car at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, the type used in Nazi deportation programs.

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Holocaust survivors Adam Paluch of Mundelein and his twin sister Ida Kersz of Skokie sit in the Pritzker Hall of Reflection at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. The twins were separated during the Holocaust, and reunited in 1995.

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The blue ribbon that Adam Paluch of Mundelein wears proudly, signifying that he is a Holocaust survivor.

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Holocaust survivor Adam Paluch of Mundelein in the Room Of Remembrance at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, which pays homage to the six million Jews and millions of others murdered during the Holocaust.

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An old family picture of Adam Paluch, far right, sitting on his mother's lap with his twin sister Ida.

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It took 45 years, but Adam Paluch finally found out who he was. The Mundelein man is a holocaust survivor. "The Dolebski family that raised me said I was a Jew, this bothered me and I started to run away from home to look for my true family," Paluch said, "But I didn't know my name, I didn't know where I was born, when I was born, nothing."
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    • Adam Paluch of Mundelein was taken by the Nazis as a child, and sent to the notorious Majdanek prison camp in Poland.
    • Paluch walks up the ramp that leads to the German rail car at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, the type used in Nazi deportation programs.
    • Holocaust survivors Adam Paluch of Mundelein and his twin sister Ida Kersz of Skokie sit in the Pritzker Hall of Reflection at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. The twins were separated during the Holocaust, and reunited in 1995.
    • The blue ribbon that Adam Paluch of Mundelein wears proudly, signifying that he is a Holocaust survivor.
    • Holocaust survivor Adam Paluch of Mundelein in the Room Of Remembrance at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, which pays homage to the six million Jews and millions of others murdered during the Holocaust.
    • An old family picture of Adam Paluch, far right, sitting on his mother’s lap with his twin sister Ida.
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