Go to the Holocaust Museum website at http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/a2z.php?type=idcard and choose one of the victims/survivors featured there. (Do not choose the same person that another student has chosen.) Read about the victim’s life. In your response, tell about what you learned about the person. (Paraphrase; DO NOT COPY AND PASTE!) In your own words, tell why it is important to remember your person.
Here’s an example for Alexander Bernstein (#32).
Alexander Bernstein was a Jewish pharmacist who died as a result of the Holocaust. He was born in Lithuania, and as an adult, he lived with his wife Jocheved in a town called Siauliai. German troops took over his town in 1941, and Bernstein and his wife were relegated to the ghetto. In 1944, they were put on the last train to the concentration camps. They were separated and sent to separate camps. In 1945, Bernstein died from sickness caused by hunger; no one knows what happened to his wife. I think it is important to remember Holocaust victims like Alexander Bernstein because their lives and dreams were stolen from them. By remembering Bernstein, I can keep a small piece of his life and his dream alive.
Please answer in 100-200 words (note that this is a smaller number of words than usual). Your response is due no later than 8:00 a.m. on Friday, March 20, 2015. You will lose points if your response is under 100 words, if it is late, and/or if it does not reflect your own ideas.
Martin Spett was born in December 2, 1928 in Tarnow, Poland. Martin, known by Monek, was the oldest child in his family. His dad worked at the city’s tax office and his mother was an American citizen but raised in Poland. In September of 1939, the Germans invaded Monek’s hometown of Tarnow. He was 10 years old at the time. The Germans forced the Jews in Tarnow to clean the streets of horse manure with their bare hands. In 1940 when the Germans began rounding up the Jews for deportation, Monek’s father and uncle dug up ditches underneath the floorboards at his Uncle’s lumberyard. They hid in the dark ditch for 4 days until everything was quite. They heard everything that was going on at the top when the Germans were occupying and looking for Jews in Tarnow. Monek was found then deported to Bergen-Belsen and was freed April 13, 1945. I think it is important to remember people like Monek because it makes us realize how hard the Jews had it when the Germans were occupying where they were. By remembering Monek, I can sympathize what the Jews had to go through during WWII
ReplyDeleteFelix Krakauer was born on April 1st, 1902 in Hodonin Czechoslovakia. He was born into a family of five other siblings. As Feliz grew up he graduated from an international trade school in Vienna. In the 1930’s Felix married a Christian woman from a small town called Hodonin. In the late 1930’s the Germans became to take control of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia. Felix was soon fired from his job due to him being Jewish, therefor his wife divorced him. From 1940-1945, Felix was forced to be a laborer for the Germans. When Felix was called for deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto, he staged his own suicide. Felix soon immigrated from Czechoslovakia and settled in Australia in 1967.
ReplyDeleteCHIL MEYER RAJCHMAN (#420)
ReplyDeleteChil was one of six children in a jewish family born in Lodz who died as a result of the holocaust. He was born on June 14, 1914 in Poland, On September 1, 1939, troops took over Lodz where he was located so they fled to Pruszkow. There they were later deported to the Warsaw ghetto, where he was later sent to Lublin area , and then to the Treblinka extermination camp. When he arrived at the extermination camp he had to cut the hair of naked women who were sent into the gas chambers and left the chambers before they were gassed. August 1943 Chil escaped from the extermination camp during an uprising in Treblinka, and hid until he was liberated by the Soviet army on January 17, 1945. I think its important to remember victims like Chil because they are important to inform about what it was like in the camps during the holocaust. It is also important to know that there were people who survived with a huge story to tell.
I like what you said about the importance of stories that survivors like Chil have to tell.
DeleteJovanka was one of six children born to Serbian Orthodox parents in a small town in the Bosnian part of Yugoslavia. Her parents were prominent Serbian nationalists. After Jovanka completed middle school in Foca, she moved with her parents in 1912 to the multi-ethnic city of Sarajevo. There she met and married Marko Babunovic in 1916. The couple raised three children.
ReplyDelete1933-39: Jovanka was an active member of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Her husband was a prosperous businessman, and she was active in supporting various charities. Her favorite causes were helping needy families in Sarajevo and in her hometown of Foca, and supporting the construction of bell towers for Serbian Orthodox churches in the poor communities of rural Bosnia
Literally you just copied and pasted the first two paragraphs, rather than reading them and writing a summary.
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Claude Brunswic was a child of a physician specializing in internal medicine. He had four other siblings and lived in Heidelberg, a university city. Until November 1932, when Nazi’s had forbidden Jews to use the city pool, Claude was a very devoted swimmer. His family decided to move to the Netherlands soon after delinquents broke into his father’s office and broke his windows along with his X-ray machine. Not long after that in 1937 they moved to paris. Before he enlisted in the French army in september 1939 he worked at a piano factory. He was taken prisoner with thousands of other french soldiers and sent to do slave labor after Germany invaded France in May 1940. He tried to escape once but he was soon caught and brought back and put into solitary confinement. Soviet prisoners from the cells above him passed him food and cigarettes to help him survive. If they had not done so then he most likely would’ve died for lack of food given. He immigrated to the United States after being liberated by americans in January 1945, and going back to Germany to help refugees.
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ReplyDeleteJules Izrael Zajdenweber was a Jewish man from Lublin, Poland. He was like any normal boy, the only difference was he was Jewish. The city he lived in had a large and healthy Jewish population. His parents had normal blue-collar jobs like any other family. During the rise of Nazi Germany, Jules and his fellow jews started to face some persecution. During the 1939 invasion of Germany on Poland, Jules fled to soviet occupied Poland, but eventually he along with many other jews were captured by the Germans. What followed was torture. His friends who resisted, he had to bury their own bodies. He had to strip the bodies of the dead of all they owned, strip them of their identity. Jules was transferred to the Vaihingen-Enz concentration camp in August 1944 and then to Dachau before being liberated by U.S. troops in 1945. Around the 1950s, he finally emigrated to the United States of America.
ReplyDeleteInge Berg was born on March 27, 1929 in Cologne, Germany. She grew up in the small town of Gisella for most of her life. Her father was a cattle dealer, her grandfather was the president of the local synagogue association, and her uncle was the cantor. They all three had many business and personal contacts with their jewish and non-jewish neighbors. In 1935, after the Nazis came to power, Inge had to leave public school, and was forced to attend a Jewish school. Soon later, the Nazis carried out the Kristallnacht against the Jews. The Bergs were warned, and they then fled to Cologne. Inge’s mother returned to their home finding it destroyed. They then left for Kenya in 1939. There, they lived on a farm raising cattle and pyrethrum. Their home had a tin roof, and cement floors, as well as their only source of water being the rain. The women; Ingle, her sister and mother, then moved to Nairobi so they could finish their education. In 1947, the Berg family came to the United States, and purchased a chicken farm and a dairy business in Vineland, New Jersey. Inge soon took a position in an attorney’s office in NewYork. She later married Werner Katzenstein. Her life, was more so like any other Jews life back in that time. It was hard, having to run and struggle for survival. I think people should be remembered, and I believe she will be as well. Though there will come a time in life, when everyone dies and the world ends. The question is, was anything really worth it? Will anyone even be remembered?
ReplyDeleteNadine Schatz was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on September 10, 1930. Through 1933 to 1939, Nadine went to elementary school in Paris. Schatz lived with her mother and her grandmother. In September 1939, after France declared war on Germany, Nadine mother decided that they would move to Saint-Marc-sur-Mer, hoping it would be safer. German troops reached Saint-Marc-sur-Mer in June 1940. Nadine and her family quickly moved to Nantes. In 1942, the little girl and her family were arrested by French troops. Nadine was separated from her mother and taken away to the Drancy transit camp. After that she was deported to Auschwitz on September 23, 1942. At 12 years old, she was gassed.
ReplyDeleteHeinrich Baehr is the man I chose. He was born on April 9, 1878 in Fusstemheim, Germany. His family consists of his wife, Yenni, his son, Kurt, and his daughter, Ida. They ran a business in Ruchheim in which they sold dry goods. Ida helped them with their vocations until she wedded. In 1933, the Nazis came to power; a lot of Jews decide to leave Germany. their niece left Germany; the baehrs want to leave Germany but they couldn’t leave behind Ida and her daughter, Freya. Now 1940, Heinrich, and his family have been deported to two detention camps in southern France. The first was a bitter cold camp, where Freya gets sick and almost dies; the other camp, Rivesaltes, gives the family a chance to help Freya escape the camp through an aid society that hides young children in french homes. In September 1942, just a few days after Freya left, the baehr family was deported to Auschwitz. The only one from the family who survived, was Freya.
ReplyDeleteTomasz was born into a jewish family in Izbica on April 15 1927. Izbica is a polish town that has a large jewish community. His father owns a liquor store. In September of 1939 a drum sounded in the marketplace of the town. Everyone in the town was told to assemble in the marketplace for a “news report”. At this time Germany invaded Poland and were advancing steadily. Later his town learned that the Soviet Union were also invading from the east. His parents and much of the town decided to stay in Izbica but others decided to run towards the Soviet Union. Tomasz’s father said his reason for this was “The Germans are antisemites but they are still human”. Tomazs was deported to the sobibor extermination camp and participated in an uprising that occurred there later. During the revolt prisoners streamed through a hole in the barbed wire fence at the camp and escaped. There were machine guns pointed at them as they were escaping. As they climbed over the fence Tomasz was trapped under the fence as it collapsed on top of him. This saved him though because the people who went ahead of him were caught by many land mines and heavy machine gun fire. Tomasz slipped out from under his coat that was hooked on the fence and escaped into the forest. He later worked as a courier in the Polish underground and left to live in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteFrida Adler was born September 14, 1926 in Selo-Solotvina, Czechoslovakia. She had two younger sisters, being the eldest. Her parents moved to Liege, Belgium when she was two. Liege, Belgium was a large Catholic industrial city full of immigrants from eastern Europe. Frida went to Belgian public schools and she grew up speaking French. In Liege, Frida and her family lived in an apartment above a cafe that was across the street from a Catholic church. Frida lived a normal life with normal friends and family. When Frida was thirteen Germany occupied Liege. Two years after, Frida and her sisters were forced to drop out of school and her family had to register. With the help of friends, Frida and her family got false papers and were able to stay safe. She received many warnings that helped her survival. Frida was in Brussels, Belgium, when it was liberated by British and Canadian troops in early September 1944. She emigrated to the United States in May 1946.
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ReplyDeleteRachel Salesschutz lived in a town called Kolbuszowa. Rachel spoke serveral different languages including English, German , Polish, Hebrew and Yiddish. Not only was Rachel bilingual but she possessed a beautiful singing voice. She had the leading roles in many plays even though many jewish children were not given roles at all in plays.In 1941 the germans established a jewish ghetto. While in the ghetto rachel was lucky to get the job as secretary for a German official.In the summer of 1942 all of the jews in Kobuszowa were transferre to a larger ghetto called Rzeszow. While in the new camp rachel had meet the german she use to work with. She tried to bargain with the german saying that she’d work for him and exchange for papers that would assure the safety of her and her family for being deported again. I am not sure if she got these papers or not but i infer she didn’t ,because in 1942 they were deported again. She was deported to a camp called Belzec were they all passed away. It is important to remember my person, because it shows how kids were involved in this war too and not just adults.
I like how you described the importance of seeing how young people were involved in the war.
DeleteGolda (Olga) Bancic was my choice off the list of the holocaust victims because they state that shes a active and a vocal member of the local workers. She had been arrested and imprisoned very many times. She should be remembered because joined the armed resistance group. Franc-Tireurs et Partisans to help in the fight against the germans. She was also very important because she made bombs that helped destroy the carrying carts that held the jews and transported them to the concentration camp. She was also very important because they had captured her and she wouldn't speak or give up any information to the germans. Sadly she was beheaded on her 32nd birthday.
ReplyDeleteZigmond Adler (#7)
ReplyDeleteZigmond was born July 18th, 1936 to his parents, Rivka and Otto Adler, who were Czechoslovakian Jews. His mother died a year later after his birth. His father married 2 more times and with the last marriage he gained a step-sister. When he was 3 years old the Germans invaded Belgium and 2 years later his father was deported to work forced labor. Zigmond’s stepmother left Liege(where they lived) and gave him to his Uncle Jermie and Aunt Chaje. When the Germans invaded Leige, 3 of Jermie’s catholic friends help to hide them by getting false papers hiding that they were Jewish. THey also helped they rent a house in a nearby village.
2 years later the Gestapo came to the house because they felt Jews were there. They moved Zigmond, his aunt and 2 cousins to the Mechelen internment camp and then he went to Auschwitz. 7 year old, Zigmond was gassed on May 21, 1944.
Hetty D’ancona was the only child of a secular jewish family. Her parents were sephardic and are descendents of jews that were expelled from Spain in 1942. Hetty and her family live in an apartment above the clothing business owned by her father. When she was 6 years old she began attending a public school. Every summer her parents rented either a room or a house at the beach. They spent about a month there and their friends and family would visit. Just after Hetty’s tenth birthday the Germans attacked and occupied the netherlands. “One by one my relatives disappeared, picked up by the Germans, even my closest friend, Judith, was sent away.” said Hetty. Hetty and her family left their home (her and her parents separated) fearing that they may have been next. She was placed with a protestant family in the south by the Dutch. The family she stayed with fed and hid her. In september 1944 there as fighting nearby, German soldiers moved into their house and ordered the townspeople to leave. Instead of leaving, Hetty and her family hid in the basement of a bombed out house. A few days later they were found by American soldiers and freed. It is important to remember her because she was one person that managed to escape from the horrible things that the Germans did.
ReplyDeleteHenry Maslowicz (#333)
ReplyDeleteHenry was born on December 25, 1940 in Wierzbnik-Starachowice, Poland. His family were Jewish in which the Jewish community got along with Polish. They lived in a Poland town over 150 years. Henry’s father owned an Iron and coal factory before he was born. On September 5, 1939 the Germans occupied Wierzbnik causing some Jewish to escape although Henry’s family stayed. In May 1940 the Nazi’s established a Ghetto. Eight months later, Henry was born. Henry’s father hid him in a Catholic convent in Cracow. The convent was soon to be bombed leaving Henry in the streets, at that time he was 3 years old. Luckily, a woman picked him up taking him into an attic above a candy store. He did not know his name or even why he was in the attic. Soon, Henry was discovered by a Jewish social worker and taken to Israel. He settled in Ecuador with his father eight years later when they were reunited. 1980, Henry moved to the United States. He was able to survive. It is important to remember this person because it shows that there is hope to anything.
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ReplyDeleteRudolf Acohen, known as Rudi, was born in a jewish family. They lived in a good neighborhood in the southern part of their city. Rudi attended a high school named Montessori. During one summer Rudi’s mom rented a house near the beach in Zandvoort, near Amsterdam. He met a girl named Ina, and they became good friends. Rudi and Ina found out that they would be attending the same high school. Rudi had friends and they all liked to gather up at ones house and listen to music.
ReplyDeleteOn May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Life continued to go on normal for a while until Rudi and his friends went on a long bike trip. Rudi was arrested in a raid in retaliation for the murder of a German from Amsterdam. Rudi was then sent to an extermination camp, where he died.
Inge Auerbacher (#14)
ReplyDeleteInge Auerbacher was an only child of Berthold and Regina Auerbacher, Jews who used to live in Kippenheim, in southwestern Germany. Her dad was a textile merchant. Inge, her mother, and grandmother hid in a shed while they took her father and grandfather. He father was first deported on November 10, 1938 along with her grandfather. In 1940-45 when Inge was only 7 years old she was deported with her parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. When arriving everything was taken from them, except clothes, and Inge’s favorite doll Marlene. The conditions in the camp that she was sent to were horrible. Inge was scared and sick most of the time, and hungry. She remembers how on her birthdays her parents gave her presents with the little that they had. On may 8, 1945 after spending three years in Theresienstadt, Inge and her parents were liberated and from there they migrated to the United States in May of 1946. I believe its important to keep these people in mind and remember all the tough times that they went through. I think that we should stop and think for a minute about what would we do if we ever went into a situation like that. This just shows how her and her family managed to stay together throughout those harsh years.
Gerd Jacob Zwienicki was the eldest of four children and survived the problems of the Holocaust. In 1933 Gerd was in high school when the Nazi came into power. In Frankfurt am Main Gerd began rabbinical studies after he graduated. He was arrested and held on November 9-10, 1938 for eight days in the Wuerzburg jail. When he returned to Bremen he learned that his brother, Benno, was sent to a concentration camp Sachsenhausen, and that his mother was murdered by the Nazis. After pleading with a Gestapo in 1939 Gerd set up a school for Jewish children who couldn’t go to an all German school. A few years after that his family settled in Canada with a relative of his father. In 1944 he was ordained as a rabbi & started his work in Yonkers, New York. It is important to remember people involved in the Holocaust like Gerd because it tells us that not all people were in concentration camps during this time. Some people were actually able to get out of that, and not have to experience that side of the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteI like that you recognized someone who was in a different situation during the Holocaust. It sounds like he was still affected by being in jail and through the deaths of his family members.
DeleteBarbara Nemith Balint was born on September 19, 1910 in Szentes Hungary to a middle-class Jewish family. She had a sister named Margit and a brother named Desider. In 1938 the Hungarian government put many anti-Jewish laws into place. German forces occupied Hungary on March 19 1944. In the summer of 1944 Barbara and her husband Hugo Balint were deported to Auschwitz, where Hugo died. Barbara was later deported from Auschwitz to a forced-labor camp in Berlin. In 1945 Barbara was released from Berlin and returned to Hungary. Barbara died in Budapest in 1980. It is important to remember people from the Holocaust because they went through a lot of torture just to be alive, a thing we take for granted.
ReplyDeleteInge Scheer born January 11th, 1930, was raised in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt, which was a large Jewish District, her family loved music. When Inge was 8 years old the Germans in Austria, so her parents deicided it was time for them to leave. They fled to the Netherlands and went to Brussels, where Jews helped hide illegal refugees. Inge began to perform and became the “Child Star”. 1940 her family moved outside of Brussels where Inge attended a Catholic school, she had also changed her name to Irene since Inge sounded too German, she had also lost her sister. I think its important to remember Inge because she survived a very rough time through history and also reminds us of how hard the Jews had it in that period of history.
ReplyDeleteWho is Gideon Boissevain? He was known for ‘’Gi’’ affectionately by the people around him. Boissevain was born in June 5, 1921 at Amsterdam, in the Netherlands but his parents were descended from Huguenots, French. He had a large amount of friends that are both Christian and Jewish that he spend quite some time with daily after school. While he was with his friends, in the 1930s his parents joined the Dutch Nazis party because they thought it was a good offer to an orderly political system, but they were wrong, they started to see how brutal the members of the party were. So Gi and his parents left the party. Later in the early 1940s Gi had completed his training to become an actuary, then worked at an insurance company but his days working there were curtailed after Germany invaded the Netherlands. Gi tried to save the targeted Jews by working for the Dutch Resistance while his parents were hiding the Jews from the Nazis. Later Gi and his family were arrested and imprisoned. Then he was executed by the Nazis at the age of 20.
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ReplyDeleteBorn: March 2, 1919
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Benjamin was a in a religious Jewish household, his father was the president of there little community. Benjamin was call Benno, but he had to younger sisters. Benno loved tennis and skiing, and in 1938, while skiing he met a girl and fell in love with. Since things were getting bad in Europe his girlfriend family left Europe and went to the United States in 1939. On October 1940 Benno and his girlfriend got married. Tragically on June 11, 1941 the Gestapo came to Benno’s door, looking for the refugee they had taken in. The refugee had murdered a German. Also the Nazis were round up foreign Jews. When Benno had said he was a Jew the Germans told him to come with them. He was sent to a Schoorl Labor camp in the Netherlands and then to another concentration camp in Austria where he died at the young age of 22.
Rudolf Auchen was a young man from Amsterdam born on June 4, 1922. He went to Montessori grade school and high school. The schools were different than public schools with an emphasis on independent learning and individual talents. Therefore, he seemed to be of privilege. His favorite activities were hanging out with friends listening to classical music or French songs. One of his favorite singers was Frank Sinatra. His other hobby was bike riding with friends. They would often go for days on bike trips. He would keep a journal of their adventures. In the summer of 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Many people still had a sense of peace not knowing what was really getting ready to happen to their country. On Sunday, June 7, 1942, Rudi, who was only 22 years old, was arrested and deported to an extermination camp. He later died in the camp. Maybe his name will not be remembered, but his story is like many others. It is important to give each and everyone of these victims their proper place in history. Remembering the past helps us from making these same mistakes. Never judge a book by its cover!
ReplyDeleteYitzhak (Irving) Balsam was born in October 17, 1924. He was born Jewish in Praszka, Poland. While Irving was a young boy him and his family lived near the Polish German border. His father was a tailor and was poor. In the 1930’s he was made to construct roads outside of his hometown of Praszka. He was then deported to Germany. He was sent to many different concentration camps. Some of them included Mauthausen and Auschwitz along with many others. Irving Balsam, along with sixty other prisoners, were caught escaping from a death march. They were sent to move the dead bodies, then they were sent to dig two large mass graves. Most of them were slaughtered in machine gunfire. The survivors were left to bury the rest. Yitzhak Balsam was one of the lucky survivors. He was liberated from Gunskirchen concentration camp in May of 1945. Later in 1948 he immigrated to the United States of America. In 1992 Yitzhak Balsam passed away.
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Inge Auerbacher lived in Kippenheim Germany. Inge was an only child and her father was a textile worker.On November 10, 1938 hoodlums threw rocks and broke the windows of her home. Afterwards, police arrested Inge's Father and grandfather but Inge, her mother, and her grandmother hid in a shed. When everything was quiet they came out to find all Jewish men in her town had been taken to Dachau concentration camp. They returned home a week later but Inge's father died of a heart attack. At 7 years old she was deported to a ghetto in Czechoslovakia. They lost of their personal belongings except there clothes and Inge's doll. Inge was without food and ill the majority of the time at the camp. On May 18, 1945 Inge and her family where given freedom from the ghetto where they spent three years of their lives. They soon moved to the United states in May 1946.
ReplyDeleteErna Schumer Unger (#53) - Born April 14, 1884 in Kolomea, Poland. She moved to Germany when she was 21 and married shortly after, her and this man had no children and her husband died soon after. Erna married a man named Jacob after this and had two children, one of which survived the war. In November 1938, the Ungers fled to Amsterdam and their children were placed in Jewish organizations. They went into hiding in 1940 and three years later they were found and arrested. Erna was 59 years old when she perished. I believe that it is important to remember not only Erna but everyone who was a victim of this war because all life's are important, no matter what anyone else thinks of you.
ReplyDeleteRev. Marian Jacek Dabrowski was a philospher in poland. He was born on January 15, 1905 in Niewodowo, Poland, as an adult he studied philosophy in France and Italy, and taught it in Poland. In September 1939 Marian was at a monestary near Grondo when Germany invaded Poland. Marian fled the monestary and went to Lomza. Even though the soviet leaders had rejected religion he still taught philosophy and still preached. Marian was arrested in Warsaw because he did not cooperate and was held in a Pawiak prison, he was later deported to Auschwitz. After being in the concentration camp he was deported to Dachau, and did malaria experiments. American troops liberated Marian on April 29, 1945. Later Marian emigrated to the United States in 1949.
ReplyDeletePinchas Gerszonowicz was born January 21, 1921. He grew up in the town of Miechow in South Central Poland. His father was a machinist and locksmith. Pinchas was a hard working guy who studied and pay left wing in soccer. At 13 he finished school and became an apprentice machinist and blacksmith. In 1939 Germany invaded poland and his parents thought it would be smart to have him and his brother flee to a part of poland that’s safe. They walked 150 miles but it was no match for Germany’s cars. They were soon caught and Pinchas had to repair and fix any damage done to Germany’s cars. He faced a lot of death right in front of his eye’s, that I probably would never imagine. Pinchas was deported to Auschwitz in early 1945. He survived and later deported to the United States in 1948. The reason why it is important to know and remember my person is because he faced hard times and even though they got to almost it’s peak, he still kept going and didn’t give up and later survived.
ReplyDeleteFrederick Fleszar was born in 1916 in Syracuse, New York. His parents were both Polish immigrants and his father was also a musician. His family decided to move back to Poland when he was 6. He graduated from high school at the age of 17 and enrolled in medical school. Germany invaded Poland in 1939, just 18 days before he was to report to military duty. He was sent to Stutthof concentration camp before they could prove he was American. His identity was realized the next day, but when he was trying to leave a guard hit him and he suffered irreparable ear damage. He was soon sent back to America and began his medical practices.
ReplyDeleteAndras Muhlrad #356
ReplyDeleteAndras was the second of two children to Jewish parents. It was 1936 when he began primary school and Hitler had already been in power in Nazi Germany for three years. He focus on making very good grades so that he could be accepted into the public high school. Sometime between 1990-1994 Four months before Andras turned 14, the Germans invaded Hungary. The Muhlrad family eventually moved in with family friend who’s building had been marked with a yellow star. Slowly more and more people moved in up until there were 25 people living together. One day a gendarme took up guard in front of the entrance. The residents then spent 3 days locked up wondering what was going to happen. Eventually Andras and the rest of the Muhlrad family because some of the 435,000 Hungarian Jews to be sent off to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. Andras was then moved to the camp by the name of Bavaria where he later died.
Heinrich baehr had a dry goods business which he shared with his wife yennj in Ruchheim. Their son kurt emigrated to america after world war I. their daughter helped in the shop til she got married. heinrich and his wife wanted to move to america, but they didn't know if they would all get sponsored to come. in 1940 ida and heinrich were deported to a detention camp or concentration camp. the conditions were so harsh they only had straw to lay down on and it was cold and rainy. the conditions were so bad that a six year old girl almost died. her parents had the opportunity to help freya. thanks to an aid society who help hide children with french families in the countryside. then heinrich and his wife and daughter were deported to auschwitz where they died.
ReplyDeleteFeliks Bruks born July 11, 1918. He was the only child in his family and was living in Czarnkow . Him and his family was also Catholic. His parents owned a mineral water, soda and beer factory. They used horses and wagons to deliver their goods. Also, his parents owned a restaurant. In 1937 he attended college at Poznan to be a pharmacist, but it was cut short when the German army invaded Poland. He fault with the Polish Army , but was captured by German soldiers , just like thousands of others were. After 3 days, he escaped and returned back and was back in Czarnkow. He was arrested for working in the underground and was sentence to hard labor.
ReplyDeleteThis man stuck out to me, because he was the only child and his family was also catholic. Also his family owned multiple businesses . It just showed that no matter how much money you had or what you had, you would still be brought into war and eventually captured.
HARRY TOPOREK
ReplyDeleteHarry was Jewish born in April 20,1923.He was one of the eight children in Lask a town in Poland.He used to go to public school and a religious school.He graduated from secondary in which he helped his family tannery.At September 1,1939 Germany invaded Poland and planes started bombing his town Lask.Him and his family fled to the field and then ran to a near by village.Him and his two brother later made it to Lodz but German had taken over the city.In 1943 him and his brother were deported to Yavoshna a camp in Auschwitz were he worked in coal mines and extra work as a tanner.Him and his brother Sam were in a infirmary when an order came to send the sick to Auschwitz to be gassed.His boss recognized him and took him in his truck and saved his life but Harry pleaded for him to save his brothers life.His boss saved him and his brother they were the inly ones saved in the infirmary.In January 1945 Harry was forced out of Yashnova with the rest of the camp and was later freed by the Soviet troops five months later on May 8,1945.
Rudolf, known as Rudi, was born in Amsterdam to a Jewish family of Spanish descent. The family lived in a pleasant neighborhood in the southern part of the city. For the families summer vacation they rented a house near the beach. he met a girl down there and they figured out we would be going to the same school. Germany invaded them may 1940. Everything stayed normal until June 7th 1942 he was arrested in a raid in retaliation for the murder of a German in Amsterdam. They deported him to a concentration camp and was immediately put to death. Rudolf is important because he was innocent and did not do anything but just because he was jewish he was accused of something he did not do and he ended up getting deported away from his family and dying as soon as he got there.
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ReplyDeleteMartin Kapel was born in Leipzig Germany to a jewish family but since his parents were Polish , he too was classified as Polish by both governments. His parents married in france and then moved to germany where they would settle and have martin and his sister . They lived in the city area of the working class but were very affected after his father died when he was only five years old. When he turned 6 he started school but at this time the Nazis had already took over so things changed quickly for martin. When they were forcibly expelled from Germany him and his sister fled to england where they stayed with several relatives . Even in England things were not easy , they suffered air raids that would leave them without gas , electricity or water for weeks .Soon after his mom was able to flee poland with a france visa and reunite with her children although Martin’s tragic experiences would leave him traumatized for a very long time .
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Gad Beck was from Berlin. Gad grew up with a Mother and Father that had barely any money. His dad was a Jewish immigrant from Australia and his Mother converted to Judaism. When Gad was 10 he went to a primary school as a Jew. Many kids bullied him, so he went a Jewish school. Not long his parents couldn't afford it any more. He had to work when he didn't go to school. When Gad was deported he went to the east where the German Jews were. He had remained in Berlin in the underground, helping Jews to escape to Switzerland.
Abraham Bergman was born in Krasnik Poland; which had a large population of Jewish people living there. His mother died when he was two so he was sent to live with his grandmother. As all other children Abraham began going to public school at the age of seven. It was hard going to school if you were Jewish because the christian children would often accuse them of killing their God and would beat them when the teacher wasn't looking. A year after Abraham graduated Germany invaded Krasni. Then he was sent to concentration camps. He managed to escape and made it to a small town which at the time he ran into an American tank. He moved to Canada and moved to the United stated in 1959. It is important to remember people like Abraham who dealt with predjudice since childhood.
ReplyDeleteMajlech Kisielnicki was born August 18, 1920 the second of three children. His parents were both Jewish and attended religious services. His father owned a gas station, grocery store, and a restaurant located near a heavily traveled road. His family all lived together in a small town outside of Warsaw where Majlech went to an elementary school where he also received religious teachings. When Majlech turned 19 the war broke out so his father decided to flee with Majlech and his brother to the USSR but when they heard rumors about a battle that had been fought in his hometown of Kaluszyn. In the early 1940s Majlech and his family started to hear stories of Jewish men being deported to work in labor camps so he decided to sneak into the Warsaw ghetto and stay with his cousin but he was caught and put into a cattle car headed for the Treblinka death camp. When other prisoners started to jump from the cattle cars, Mejlech decided to jump and he escaped back to Warsaw. He was later deported to Auschwitz and after the war moved to the United States. We can learn from stories like these by taking their experiences, thinking about how they were treated and making an effort to think about other’s feelings.
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ReplyDeleteRozia was born in a religious jewish family. She lived in a big family, she was one of nine children. Her whole family worked in the tailor shop which they ran from home. She lived in a small one story house that doubled as the tailors shop. In the shop she sewed women’s clothing. Rozia married a Jewish tailor who was from radom, a town about 60 miles from warsaw. The couple moved to Starachowice where they opened up their own tailor shop. She had two daughters before germany invaded poland. When the ss guards herded them into the marketplace and separated them she went with her two daughters and her mother. They were loaded into cattle cars and transported from there to Treblinka, an extermination camp. Rozia, her two daughters and her mother went to the Treblinka extermination camp together and were gassed.
Jenine Gutman was born on June 25, 1925 in Bacau, Romania. She was the youngest of her Jewish parents, two daughters. They lived in a small city in central Moldavia. Her father was a veteran of World War I, and came from a large family. Jenine had more than 15 aunts and uncles, all living in Bacau. Their extended family helped raise Jenine and her sister, while their parents ran a grocery store. All of the children her age, belonged to a national youth organization headed by Prince Michael. They wore special uniforms with berets and leather belts, and held patriotic rallies in the stadium. Later in life her father became ill, and business started to suffer. Eventually he lost the store and everything that they owned. In 1938, they moved to Bucharest, which is the national capital, and Jenine’s father got a new job as a factory clerk, causing her and her sisters to attend a new school. By that time, the fascist Iron Guard was in power, and their patriotism had no longer made a difference. Because they were jewish, they were forced out of public school and put into a Jewish school. There, Jenine decided to study bookbinding. Jews then started being excluded from public hospitals, and sent to a Jewish clinic organized in Bucharest. Jenine worked in the cafeteria there. New restrictions were being imposed. There were pogroms, and the government made their family provide clothing and bedding to the Romanian army. Jenine was liberated by the Soviet army in August 1944, and she continued to live in Romania until 1976, when she emigrated with her family to the United States.
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Hans Heimann (#190) born May 28, 1920 lived in Vienna, Austria before his family decided they had nothing left for them when the German troops came and took the Jews out of school. Hans and his family were to Italy where they had to talk to the Italian police. The police told them "But don't worry," they said, "We're human beings. We're not animals. We're not the Germans." ( http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/idcard.php?ModuleId=10006256 ). The police took them the village of Compagna, and a month later to Tortoreto in central Italy. Hans stayed in Tortoreto for a couple of years before they were liberated by the British army. He worked as a interpreter for the Allies until the end of the war, he also spent 3 year smuggling Jews into Palestine. Hans was a good man and he was very lucky his family decided to move before they were to be taken to camp and most likely killed.
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