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Peter Brauer (Biro) was born in 1895 in Heviz Gyor, Hungary. His profession was as a cattle merchant. In feudal Hungary, the aristocrats, who owned most of the land, were ...
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Sarah Weinstein was born in 1907 in Budapest, Hungary. She married Sandor Schaechner in 1927, and they had two children, Tibor and Magda. In 1941, her parents and two of ...
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Olga (Steinberger) Bowman was born on April 8, 1927 in Pacin, Hungary. She had two brothers and one sister. Her parents owned a beer garden business which was taken away ...
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Hannah Burstein was born on January 8, 1922 in Tarnow, Poland. She had four brothers and one sister. Of her immediate family, only she, her sister, and one brother survived ...
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Julius Dula, son of Samuel Dula and Hanna Grunberger, was born in Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1904. Throughout his youth, Julius worked in the hardware and construction business. In the ...
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Ruth Blaugrund Dula was born in Czechoslovakia on September 27, 1913 to Mordechai and Hanna Blaugrund, two dedicated farmers whose family worked the land for several generations. Ruth had four ...
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Thomas Dula was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia on March 19, 1944 to Julius and Ruth Dula. Thousands of Czech Jews were being slaughtered as part of Hitler’s Final Solution to ...
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Albert Bela Eger was born in 1919 in Presov, Slovakia. In 1940, when the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia, Albert was expelled from the University of Prague and drafted into the ...
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Edith Eva Eger was born on September 29, 1927 in Kosice, Slovakia, which came under the rule of Hungary in 1938. Her upbringing included early training in ballet and gymnastics ...
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Neftali Frankel was born on December 26, 1921 in Tarnow, Poland, the eldest of four children. Neftali was 18 years old when World War II began. Soon after the Nazi ...
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Larry Gladstone was born in 1922 in Vysna Kamenica, Slovakia and moved to Munkacs at the age of seven. He was 16 years old when World War II began. In ...
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Aleksander Gluck was born on February 7, 1920 in Visne Reviste, Slovakia. Because of strong anti-Semitism from the Slovaks in his rural community, he dropped out of school at the ...
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Guy Hauptman was born on April 20, 1939 in Brussels, Belgium to Sara and Nathan Hauptman. When he was four months old, Sara took him to Paris to join Nathan ...
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Monique Hauptman was born on October 6, 1942 in Brussels, Belgium to Sara and Nathan Hauptman during the German occupation of Belgium. Sara began working for the Belgian resistance making ...
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Nathan Hauptman was born on February 7, 1909 in Petrikau, Poland and was the oldest of eight children. At the age of 13, Nathan was sent to Belgium to learn ...
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Sara (Rozen) Hauptman was born in Laskarzew, Poland in 1918. When she was still an infant, her parents fled the organized attacks on Jews in Poland (pogroms) to more religiously ...
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Rosa Haus, was born Rosa Harry in Poznan, Poland in 1916.  An only child, Rosa was living with her parents when they were forcibly removed from their home and sent ...
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Karl Fiedler Hochmann was born in 1929 in Chernovtsky, Rumania. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He lost his parents and nine brothers (one ...
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Fred (Godfrey) Kahn was born on May 6, 1913 in Giessen, Germany. In 1933, he and his brother, Rudy, were forced to defend themselves against members of the Hitler Youth ...
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Edith (Gluck) Kallman was born in Visne Reviste, Slovakia in 1924. In 1943, after receiving a warning of impending detention, she and her sister left their home, traveling at night, ...
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Benjamin Kandel was born on January 2, 1915 in Lvov, Poland to Sigi Kandel and Elka Hahn. His father was killed during World War I. Ben moved to Krakow at ...
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David Kaplan was born in 1928 in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. When the Russians occupied this area, his father was arrested for being part of the bourgeoisie and sent to Siberia ...
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El Paso Holocaust Museum Founder Henry Kellen (Henriek Kacenelenbogen) was born in Lodz, Poland on July 5, 1915. After graduating high school, Henry furthered his education at a university in ...
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Jerry Kellen was born Jacob Grinberg on November 27, 1937 in Lodz, Poland. Together with his mother, Sonia, and the rest of their family, Jerry was forced into the Kovno ...
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Julia (Filipovsky) Kellen was born on October 28, 1914 in Kybartai, Lithuania. After the invasion of Lithuania by the German Army in 1941, Julia and her family were forced into ...
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Samuel Kessel was born in Lithuania on March 10, 1922, the youngest of five children. His father had died shortly before he was born. When World War II broke out, ...
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Twins Ferenc and Otto Klein were born in 1932 in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary. The Klein family owned a lumberyard and a cement factory which were established in the 1800s. In April ...
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Twins Ferenc and Otto Klein were born in 1932 in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary. The Klein family owned a lumberyard and a cement factory which were established in the 1800s. In April ...
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Itzhak Kotkowski was born on December 25, 1921 in Warsaw, Poland. He grew up in the Jewish Quarter or “Old Town,” and his father was an owner of a general ...
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Thelma (Krueger) Krugman was born on February 14, 1927 in Sowina, Poland. Her family lived there in a small self-supporting farm. They were forcibly evicted by the invading Nazis and ...
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Mark Kupfer was born in November 1929 in Nowogródek, Poland - the second youngest of nine children. The family ran a dry goods store and drugstore. Following the invasion of ...
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