Rybak, Nathan
Nathan Rybak was born in 1912 in Radom, Poland. He was the second youngest of eight brothers and sisters. The family lived on a dairy farm and, because the synagogue […]
Rose, Eric
Eric (Rosenzweig) Rose was born on February 18, 1914 in Vienna, Austria. Just as conditions for Jews in Vienna were worsening, Eric barely escaped what would have been a certain […]
Pergricht, Bernard
Bernard Pergricht was born in Sosnowiec, Poland on April 12, 1913. When Poland was taken over by the Nazis, Bernard lost his job at a lumber company when that company […]
Pergricht, Arlene
Arlene (Grunberger, Shugart) Pergricht was born in 1912 in Budapest, Hungary. She had three brothers and three sisters. Her father was a jeweler. Arlene married in 1942, and in July […]
Osborne, Irene
Irene Osborne (Ingeborg Eichberg) was born in 1927 in Koblenz, Germany to Josef and Emmy Eichberg. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht, their synagogue was destroyed by Nazis. The next […]
Oppenheim, Irma
Irma (Wertheim) Oppenheim was born in 1924 in Falkenberg, a small community near Kassel, Germany. She had one older sister, Lotte Wertheim. Their father was a successful merchant, but her […]
Mason, Lee
Of the 600 hundred citizens in the village of Meimbressen, Germany, 70 of them were Jewish. It is now considered a lost community, as not one Jewish family is left. […]
Mason, Hilde
Hilde Grunebaum was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923 to Julius and Hedwig Seligman Grunebaum. They were a “sophisticated” city family and good German Reform Jews. Hedwig’s birthday was November […]
Lipson, Sundel
Sundel Lipson was born on February 15, 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania to Mayer and Gitel Lipsches. He had five brothers and one sister. Sundel met and married Rachel Goodman Bendalin, […]
Lipson, Rachel
Rachel (Goodman Bendalin) Lipson was born on April 18, 1910 in Shaudina, Lithuania to Jacob and Chana (Goodman) Bendalin. She lived on and helped run her parents’ farm. She had […]