September 1st, 2007
Rosalie Simon–Auschwitz
Posted by
mcloughm in
Auschwitz
Rosalie Lebovic Simon was born in Tresea, Czechoslovakia, one of six children—five girls: Helen, Charlotte, Lenka, Rose, and Rosalie and a boy: William. In April of 1944 the family was moved from their home to the Mátészalka Ghetto. Then in May of 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the southwest of Poland. Eventually Rosalie was sent to two slave labor camps—Geislingen and Allach; both these labor camps were in Germany. In May 1945 as she was again being moved by the Germans, her train was liberated by American soldiers. In November of 1949 she immigrated to the United States, to Baltimore, Maryland where she met her husband, moving later to the Atlantic City area.
