Edith Fuhrmann Brandmann was born September 11, 1931 in Krischatik, Romania. Edith’s father was a prosperous sugar-beet farmer and cattle rancher, her mother owned a grocery store. In 1939, she was 10 years old when the war broke out. In 1941 Jews began being rounded up but Edith and her family luckily managed to escape the deportation as the Ro...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Fred Amram was born September 19, 1933 in Hanover Germany, where he experienced the early years of the Holocaust. An only child, he and his parents found their way to Antwerp, Belgium in November 1939 before escaping later that month to New York City. For many years the family had no idea the fate their extended families members had suffered unt...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Gustav “Gus” Gutman left Germany with his parents and grandmother in 1939, when he was four years old. His father (the owner of a successful dry cleaning and dyeing company) had been imprisoned during Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews which took place on November 9-10, 1938 in Nazi Germany and Austria. During that time, Gus, his mother and gr...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Herbert Fantle was born an only child in Vienna, Austria on March 18, 1929. In March 1938, Fantle’s mother took then 9-year-old Herbert to see Hitler give his welcome speech to the Austrians. He recalls his mother telling him not to get too close. His mother sensed danger and felt that leaving Austria the best course of action, but at the time t...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Lucy Smith (born Lucy Kreisler) was born on June 15, 1933 in Kraców, Poland. She was six years old when the German army occupied Poland. Lucy had to leave school after one month of attendance because education was no longer allowed for Jewish children. After many other indignities she was put in the ghetto where she and her mother hid from the N...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Max Goodman (born Gutmann) was born in Radauti, Romania on November 23, 1923. Although his family had lived in Radauti since 1718, they were considered outsiders because they were Jews. When the Soviet Union occupied the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and North Bukovina in June of 1940, a rumor spread that Jews in these provinces had attacked ...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Victor Vital was born February 6, 1932 in Patra, Greece. When the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, word spread through Patra that Victor’s entire maternal family of 90 had been murdered in Salonica. Friends urged Victor’s father to take his extended family of eight and flee before the Nazis entered the city. With the help of his father’s friend who...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Walter Schwarz was born in 1921 in Timisoara, Romania. Formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian empire Timosoari was ethnically divided between Hungarian, Romanian and German speaking people. Walter and his family primarily spoke German, which would prove to be helpful later in Walter’s life. Walter was in Brno studying textiles at a Czech school w...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Dora Eiger Zaidenweber was born in Poland in January of 1924. Dora and her father, mother, and brother lived a middle class life in the city of Radom in central Poland. The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 took her community by surprise, and disrupted her young life. Immediately, life changed, and Dora and her peers could not attend school. Dora ...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2015
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.