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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Schweitzer, Lee

Lee Schweitzer was born in Vienna, Austria on April 16, 1915. Early on in the Nazi occupation of Austria, he was able to move to Palestine because he had relatives […]
Schweitzer, Gertrude

Gertrude Schweitzer was born in Vienna, Austria on August 15, 1914 to Leah and Isaac Burger. She had one brother, Yosef, who was three years older. After the Nazi occupation […]
Schuller, Yvonne

Yvonne (Resler) Schuller was born on November 30, 1915 in Paris, France. When the Nazis occupied Paris in 1941, she was smuggled from her apartment and fled through the forests […]
Schuller, Rose

Rose Schuller was born in 1920 in Brussels, Belgium. She was hidden by Italian fascists for the duration of the war and married Albert Schuller in 1945. They came to […]