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OBERLIN, Ohio — At 18-months-old, Carol Wilner, along with her family, was captured and sent to a Nazi labor camp.Get the day's top headlines sent to your inbox each weekday morning with the free 3News to GO! newsletter
Wilner has spoke to smaller groups about her and her family's experience before, but never to a crowd quite as big as the one at Sunday's Holocaust Remembrance Day at Oberlin College. She recalled how she was hid in a crawl space to avoid detention from the guards at the camp. One day, her mom was holding her when German soldiers busted into to her barracks. Baby carole was pushed under the bed, but a German Shepperd sniffed her out. Carole was face to face with a Nazi guard, but miraculously, the guard walked out and never turned her in.
Wilner's granddaughter Emily Mandell is a graduate of Oberlin's Conservatory. She told 3News that hearing hear grandmother speak about her experience made her emotional,"It was intense. I was just shaking the whole time. I was tensing up some parts of the time. I knew some parts of the story but we hadn't talked about everything in detail."
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