holocaustpt2

Paul Argiewicz	Paul Argiewicz was born in 1930 in Bielsko, Poland with his parents and two sisters. By the age of ten, he was in a Ghetto and was arrested at eleven for stealing bread. He was then put into an evaluation camp and was then put into Auschwitz. Along with Auschwitz, Paul was in seven different camps: Blakehammer, Hareshtoygon, Blonsow, Plaszow, Grossross, Blakehammer, and Bowlowel, where he was liberated.
Inge Auerbacher	Inge Auerbaucher was born in Germany in 1934 and lived there with her parents until 1939, where she and her family moved in with her grandparents. In 1941 she was sent to Terazin-the camp inspected by the International Red Cross- in Czechoslovakia where she lived for three years. The Russians liberated the camp on May 8th,1945, and Inge came to America in May of 1946.
Manny Chulew	Manny Chulew was born in Poland and lived there with his parents and two brothers until 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and ordered all Jews to leave. He and his family moved to an area in the Soviet Union but then were taken by freight train to Siberia where they worked in a work camp. After a year, they were allowed to leave and moved to Kazakhstan and lived for five years. After the war, Manny moved back to the Poland area but soon left for Austria. After five years there, in late 1951, Manny and his family came to America.
Raye David	Raye David was born in Poland in 1928 to a large family. In 1941, after her father was killed, she moved with her mother to a Ghetto, but was separated from her to go live with another family to survive. In 1943 she was taken from the Ghetto to Kaiserwald in Latvia. Later, she was taken to Stuthoff, near Danzig. Then, late December 1944, she was taken to Bergen-Belsen. The camp was liberated in 1945.
Suzie Fono
Gerry Friedenfeld
Sidney Goldfarb
Magda Herzberger	Magda Herzberger was born in Cluj, Romania in 1926. She grew up as an only child, but still had a large family. In school Magda was determined to work hard for good grades. Due to her grades and intelligence Magda was one of the few Jews who made it into Queen Mary, where Magda described as being a very anti-Semitic. As a teenager Magda and her family were told to leave their home and were moved to the ghetto, where Magda describes being separated from the rest of her family. Soon after Magda ended up in a German Concentration Camp. After the Holocaust Magda and her remaining moved to United States for more freedom.
Marcell Hodak	At a young age Marcell Hodak and his family were forced to leave their hometown of Paris in 1942 after being told to evacuate because the Germans were coming to bomb the city. After Marcell and his family evacuated Paris they were had to hide the fact that they were Jewish and almost were caught at many times, until they came to the United States in 1946.
Dr. Michael Kessler	Michael Kessler was born in July of 1925 in Dubno of then Poland. He grew up in a middle class family with parents and an older sister. In 1941 during the Germans Soviet Union Michael and his family left their hometown on foot for two days, they moved until they made it deep into the Soviet Union in Uzbekistan.
Sylvia Kestenbaum	Sylvia Kestenbaum was born after the war in a DP camp. Her family moved to America when she was only two years old and 8 months. Her parents were from Poland and worked in the Concentration Camps during the war. In America Sylvia grew up in Pennsylvania where her father was a tailor.
Jacki Lewis	Jack Lewis’s father Walt was born in 1920 and his aunt Ruth was born in 1925. Walt and Ruth grew up in an upper-class family there family had many talents and they went on many vacations. When Hitler came to power in 1933 many rules were laid against Jews that affected their family. Their family soon decided to separate for the children’s safety, they kept contact through writing letters. Ruth and Walt did not see each other until after the holocaust.
Stephan Lewy	Stephen Lewy was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925 as an only child. His mother died when he was at the young age of six years old. His father was put into an early concentration camp because he was part of socialist party. Stephen stayed in an orphanage and went to school during the day until his father was excused from the camp due to a health scare. Stephen and his family soon made it to America where they were free.
Carl Lustbader	Carl Lustbader grew up in the vicinity of Kraklow, Poland. His family consisted of parent’s three parents and a sister. After the war broke out Carl and his family had been told they were not welcome and were commanded to leave. For a while Carl lived in a ghetto until he was sent to a concentration camp. He worked in many concentration camps until they war was over.
Fred Manassee
Manny Mandell
Robert Matzner	Robert Matzner was born in Poland and at about 13 years of age, German forces crossed into his hometown and the war started. Soon he and his family were put into a Ghetto with the German name of Learchelfeld. They stayed there for 8 months. Then on a march his mother and grandmother were brutally by an officer for not being able to keep up and he was left alone. He was selected to work and sent to a camp to work for the autobahn. After being in 7 different camps he was liberated and came to America to live in Sheboygan. He was 19 and still lives there today in the Jewish community.
Howard Melton	Howard Melton, born in February of 1931, lived a simple and poor lifestyle with his mother, father, and two sisters in a two room house. Their situation was neither good, nor bad, but in fact was like how most people in Europe lived at the time. Later on, he and his family were moved into a Ghetto. In October of 1942, he and his sisters, along with 500 other people, were shipped up to the capitol of Latvia to work on the airport and a farm. Melton was placed in farm work and it may have saved his life, because that type of work was not as difficult as the airport work, and this way he had food. Out of his family, only he and his father survived the war. His mother got sick and was taken to the gas chambers, and his younger sister went with to be with her. In 1944 he and his father were sent from the work camp and into a concentration camp in Poland. At 14 years of age, he was liberated, and weighing 50-55lbs, was in and out of hospitals for two or three years after the war.
Dr. Julius Menn	Dr. Julius Menn was born on February 20^th, 1929 in the city now called Gdansk. After the hardships of traveling to try and get away from the Germans, his family befriended by a young Soviet Jewish officer. He helped get them on a military train that was going towards Vilna and he may have helped to save all our lives. Vilna was later to be turned over to the Germans, so they settled into the Jewish ghetto there
Marguerite Miskin	Marguerite Mishkin was born during the war in May of 1941. She had an older sister born the year before her and their mother put both her and her sister into hiding after their father was taken away in October of 1942. her mother ended up being taken in 1944 and bother her and her husband were murdered in the years that they were taken. Marguerite and her sister stayed with a Catholic family until she was about five years old. After leaving this home both her and her sister ended up in a Jewish orphanage in Belgium and remained there for about three and a half years. After going to another orphanage they both came to the U.S in 1950. She grew up to be a teacher and earned two masters degrees.
Johanna Neumann	Johanna Neuman was eight years old when her world changed around. After Kristallnacht occurred, reality set in and her family went to Albania, because that was what was available. Eventually they got out of Albania, though it was very hard because the country was under communism. After being in a displaced persons camp for a bit, she came to America in September of 1946.
Charles Rojer	Charles Rojer was born in Belgium in 1934. In Belgium, there was a very active underground, which helped to hide Jewish children. Charles parents made arrangements to hide him in a Tuberculosis Sanatorium by using false x-rays that showed a chest with TB. His parents were taken to Aushwitz and gassed. His sisters, through hiding in different places with neighbors, catholic convents and hospitals, were able to stay together during the rest of the war. Eventually Charles was able to reconnect with one of his sisters and he was no longer without a family.
Lisl Schick	Lisl Schick was born in Vienna, Austria in the year of 1927. After witnessing Kristallnacht, her brother and her were put on the kinder train going to England; it was 1939. Once there, they were put into a boarding school. They were supported by charity and by the time she’d finished high school at the age of 16, she’d been to 8 different schools. Because of his job, her father was able to get help to come over to England, though he had no money so had to live separately from them. Her mother was unable to get out of Vienna because they lost her papers and it was getting closer and closer to the war. She was living with the whole family of about 20 people in a two bedroom apartment. Lisl and her father and brother weren’t able to write or call her; she was trapped. Her father was eventually sent to the Isle of Man, and lived in the prison there for about two years. Eventually her mother was able to get out of Vienna and go to New York, where she lived by herself for six years working as a maid. Lisl and the rest of her family were later able to join her. In the holocaust Lisl lost about 20 members of her extended family as well as her uncle. Being in charge of her brother gave her a real purpose and it is what kept her going.
Irving Schmooker
Ben Sieradzki
Judy Silbermann
Erni Statfeld
Ernest Weiss
David Welles