We are pleased to be able to share R. Gabriele Silten’s book, Our Memories 2012. Our Memories is a book of poems, memoirs, and other documents submitted by child survivors and their families for the 2012 Cleveland Conference. Gabriele has [click to read more]
MORE FROM A WANDERER I was born in Vienna, Austria on January 8, 1932. I was thus six years old at the time of the Anschluss (annexation of Austria by Germany). We left Vienna on an overnight train to Venice [click to read more]
My parents were originally from a small town near the larger city of Lodz, in Poland. They came to live in Paris right after their marriage in 1930, and I was born there in August of 1931. Ours was a [click to read more]
My parents were born in Germany and fled after Hitler’s rise. Many of the members of their extended family managed to reach safe havens between 1933 and 1939 when the war actually started. This was the pattern of a great [click to read more]
I am a child survivor of the Holocaust. Even though I am no longer a child at this time, I was a child when I lived through the Holocaust. Before the war, I lived in Brussels, Belgium with my family. [click to read more]
In July 1942, I was eight years old and living in occupied Belgium. The Germans had just begun to round up Jews and deport them so it became imperative for my family to go into hiding. Suddenly I found myself [click to read more]
A TALE OF TEREZIN (also known as Theresienstadt) Interview with My Mother, Miryam L., Child Survivor of Concentration Camp As Told To Esther V. L., 1999 SOME BACKGROUND NOTES: The place of my mother’s Birth, CHUST, is a small town [click to read more]
S.S. St. Louis experience I was born on May 11, 1933. After the promulgation of the Nurnberg laws in 1935, my parents decided there was no future for them or their in children in Nazi Germany and applied for a [click to read more]
Goldie survived the Auschwitz camp. Some questions and answers: #1 How long did you stay in Auschwitz? Five and 1/2 months. Went in with my mother and 2 sisters, was 13 1/2 years old when war ended. #2 What was [click to read more]
I was born in Warsaw Poland and I lived there until 1939. In that year, after Germans occupied Poland, my parents and I managed to get across the border to the eastern part of Poland that was occupied by Russia. [click to read more]
I was born in Przemysl, Poland, but after the Russians occupied Eastern Poland, we moved in to Lwow, to avoid being sent to camps in Russia. My father was a business man and was considered “an enemy of the state”. [click to read more]
My parents were originally from a small town near the larger city of Lodz, in Poland. They came to live in Paris right after their marriage in 1930, and I was born there in August of 1931. Ours was a [click to read more]
I was born in Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 25 March 1934. My parents had immigrated from Western Poland. In 1940, after the German invasion of the Benelux countries, we moved to Brussels, where I began my primary education, in [click to read more]
Henry O I was born in Amsterdam in April, 1940, a month before the German invasion of the Netherlands (10th May 1940). My father was born in Krakow, now Poland. He had moved to Vienna , Austria, at [click to read more]
Aaron E. Aaron lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA Good Afternoon, Honorable Mayor, (Mrs. Daley,) Distinguished guests, Fellow Survivors (by whose presence I am truly humbled), Students, Ladies and Gentleman The questions ladies and gentlemen is why do we speak about [click to read more]
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