Hauptman, Monique
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 […]
Gluck, Alex
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 […]
Gladstone, Dr. Larry
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 […]
Dula, Thomas
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 […]
Dula, Ruth Blaugrund
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 […]
Dula, Julius
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 […]
Burstein, Hannah
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 […]
Bowman, Olga
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 […]
Biro, Sarah
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 […]
Biro, Peter
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 […]