October 14th, 2007
Arbeit Mach Frei
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This introduction is from the USHMM’s online site and includes a poem from Charlotte Delbo’s trilogy, Auschwitz and After.
September 1st, 2007
Rosalie Simon–Auschwitz
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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.
June 28th, 2007
Janet Moskowitz, Holocaust survivor, on Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Janet Zuchter Moskowitz, born in Bedzin, Poland, was sent with her mother, brother, and some aunts, uncles, and cousins to Auschwitz-Birkenau, in 1943. Janet survived Auschwitz Concentration Camp and a death march to a sub-camp of Ravensbruck. She was liberated in May of 1945 by the British.
After liberation Janet married Max Moskowitz and they lived for a time in Germany where they had a daughter, Ida. In 1950, the family immigrated to the United States, eventually buying a chicken farm in Egg Harbor. Janet, who died in May 2007, wrote her memoir, “The Miracle of Survival: Angels at my Back,” published in September of 2007.
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