http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust weblog Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:28:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Norris Biron, Liberator Norris Biron was just a teenager when he was drafted into the United States Army during the final years of World War II. Little did Norris know when he was in basic training in Georgia that the drive to liberate Europe would take him to a concentration camp ... http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2008/10/17/62/ simon-sidney.m4aIn 1925, Sidney Simon was born in Belitze, Poland, now part of Belarus. Sidneys parents, Samuel and Czerna, had five children: three boys, Mojshe, Sidney, Richard, and two girls, Katie and Ida. Sidneys father, Samuel, owned a restaurant and a liquor store. His mother, Czerna, was a ... http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2008/10/13/sidney-simon-a-partisan-returns-to-belize/ goldfarb-phillip.m4aFievel (Phillip) Goldfarb was born on August 25, 1921, in Sdziszw, Poland, near Krakow. Phillip was one of nine children, seven sons and two daughters (one of whom died in childhood): Anna (1900), Oscar (1905), Aaron Selig (1907), Pinek (1909), Wolfek (101), Julius (1913), Isaac ... http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2008/03/03/phillip-fievel-goldfarb-holocaust-survivor/ Arbeit Mach Frei http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2007/10/14/arbeit-mach-frei/ Aushwitz Introduction This introduction is from the USHMM's online site and includes a poem from Charlotte Delbo's trilogy, Auschwitz and After. http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2007/10/14/37/ Fanny Lessers LiberationFanny Fixler Lesser, born in Majdan, a shtetl in Czechoslovakia, near Chust, was one of nine children. In 1944, the family was deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where Fanny was separated from her family. She was selected and sent to Weiswasser, a Nazi slave labor camp in Poland. ... http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2007/09/03/fanny-lessers-liberation/ Sonia Kaplan was born in eastern Poland, in Wlodzimierz Volynski. In 1941, when Sonia was eleven, her town was occupied by the Nazis. Sonia was rescued twice in the ghetto. She eventually escaped to the forest where she joined the Russian partisans. At the end of WW II, ... http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2007/09/02/sonia-kaplans-experiences-in-the-ghetto/ 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 Mtszalka Ghetto. Then in May of 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz ... http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2007/09/01/rosalie-simon-auschwitz/ 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 ... http://titania.stockton.edu/holocaust/2007/06/28/7/