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Local Family Publishes Holocaust Book
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MAURICE CHORNEY was
one of those Holocaust survi-
vors who never really talked
about his experience.

But when his daughter,
Helene Shipon, was moving
Chorney from his house to an
assisted living home in 2010,
she found letters from his
family back in Poland.

And they did all the talking.

Chorney, who died in 2013,
immigrated to the United
States from Poland in 1938
when he was 17. He came
over to work at his uncle’s
Philadelphia shipyard.

But the rest of his family, his
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parents, his sisters and others,
stayed in Poland and died
during the Holocaust. Chorney
went on to serve in the Army
during World War II and beat
the Nazis who killed his family.

He also grew up to run the
shipyard, raise a multigener-
ational family of his own and
prove that Hitler did not win.

Now, Helene Shipon and
her husband, Philadelphia-area
businessman Alvin Shipon,
have used those letters to
document Chorney’s journey
in a book: “Dearest Maysheleh.”
Th e book is available on
Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s
website. It has two customer
reviews on Amazon. Both
readers gave it fi ve stars.

But Alvin Shipon, who
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grandsons Courtesy of Helene Shipon
wrote the book, didn’t do it
for sales or ratings. He did
it as “a labor of love” and to
document history, said his son
and Maurice’s grandson, Matt
Shipon. In reading the letters
between Chorney and his
mother, father, sisters and
friends, the Shipons “fell in
love with the family they never
met,” Alvin Shipon said.

“We cried,” he added. “We
actually mourned for them.”
Th e letters revealed the
harrowing emotional journey
of Chorney’s young life. His
grandson recounted them
in a recent email to the
Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia about the book.

“We hear the words of
his parents in their own pen,
describing the degradation of
their conditions,” Matt Shipon
wrote. “We hear the words of
other family members and
friends describing the fi nancial
and physical stress they were
enduring.” “As the letters go on, the
situation in Poland becomes
more and more bleak,” he
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