Dimensions in Testimony
El Paso Holocaust Museum is proud to present its new permanent exhibition: Dimensions in Testimony Dimensions in Testimony, developed by the USC Shoah Foundation, is a conversational experience between visitors and a Holocaust survivor or liberator. This groundbreaking exhibit employs advanced filming techniques, specialized display technologies, and next-generation natural language processing to create an immersive experience. […]
Weiser, Dr. Eva
Sigmund Weiser was born in 1908 in Kolomyja, Poland. He and his wife, Eva, were citizens of Italy in the 1930s. They had both received doctorates in pharmacy from Italy’s University of Modena. Being in Italy, they were relatively safe from the Nazis at first. But in 1939, they returned to Poland to attend Eva’s […]
Weiser, Dr. Sigmund
Sigmund Weiser was born in 1908 in Kolomyja, Poland. He and his wife, Eva, were citizens of Italy in the 1930s. They had both received doctorates in pharmacy from Italy’s University of Modena. Being in Italy, they were relatively safe from the Nazis at first. But in 1939, they returned to Poland to attend Eva’s […]
Weiselman, Nathan
Nathan Weiselman was born on April 26, 1914 in Radom, Poland. He was forced into the Radom ghetto in early 1940. He was then transported to Lublin, Poland and then to Cieszanow labor camp. Nathan was deported to Majdanek, one of the six notorious death camps in Poland. Nathan escaped from Majdanek into the Polish […]
Weiselman, Lea
Lea (Lola Zegen) Weiselman was born in 1919 in Zamosc, Poland. After the Nazis occupied Poland, Lea and her family left Zamosc and moved to Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine. From there they went to the Novosibirsk region of Siberia, where they were interned in a labor camp. But they were able to leave there and moved to […]
Vorenberg, Fred
Manfred Vorenberg was born in 1922 in Kassel, Germany and then lived in Meimbressen, Germany. In 1936, his parents, wanting to protect him from the escalating persecution by the Nazis, sent him to live with his uncle in Denver, Colorado. There he enjoyed the American way of life and entered Colorado State University. His education […]
Vorenberg, Elizabeth
Elizabeth (Guembel) Vorenberg was born in Worms, Germany on April 6, 1920. She moved to Frankfurt in 1935 to attend one year in a Jewish home economic school, after which she worked in Dusseldorf until 1939. Three weeks before World War II broke out, after waiting nine months to receive her passport, she was able […]
Strauss, Juergen
Juergen Strauss was born in Euskirchen, Germany on August 25, 1924 to Oskar and Edith Strauss. He spent most of his childhood in Neuwied, where his father was a partner in a five- and ten- cent store. In 1937, Juergen moved to Cologne to go to a Jewish high school, since Jews were not allowed […]
Stockl, Ilonka
Ilonka Stockl was born on December 26, 1907 in Berlin, Germany. She married a non-Jewish man, Johann Michael Stockl, in 1923. They had a daughter, Monika, in 1936. When the Nazis began their persecution of the Jews, Michael abandoned Ilonka. She fled to Arnhem, Holland in 1939. In August 1943, Ilonka was arrested and taken […]
Shugart, Peter
Peter Shugart was born in July 1942 in Budapest, Hungary. When his mother, Arlene, was pregnant with Peter, his father was arrested and taken to forced labor in Russia. He never returned. Arlene ran their store until the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944. Arlene and Peter moved into an apartment with his aunt, cousin, and […]