Dr. Larry Gladstone was born in 1922 in Vishniak Chamenitza, Czechoslovakia. In 1943, Larry was forced into a labor battalion digging anti-tank ditches in Poland and Ukraine. In 1944, he was forced on death marches to Mauthausen then to Gunskirchen. Larry survived a deadly typhus epidemic and was liberated by the American Army in May 1945. Larry learned that his sister Clara had perished in Auschwitz, but his sister Edith survived. In 1945, Larry went to Charles University then came to the United States in 1946. He attended medical school in El Paso then married Beatrice Marcus in 1953. They had three children.

Pre-War

Forced Labor

Post War

Nazi Invasion

Liberation

Edith (Gluck) Kallman was born on July 5, 1924 in Czechoslovakia. In 1943, Edith and her family fled into Hungary where they were separated. Edith lived under the false name of Anika Braun until moving to Debrecen where she was caught in a roundup and sent to Auschwitz in 1944. Edith was then consigned to labor in Ravensbruck and Oranienberg. She was liberated on a death march by the Soviet Army in 1945. Edith was reunited with her brothers, Maurice and Alex, and her sister, Gizella, in Budapest. She immigrated to the United States in 1948. Edith married Irving Kallman in 1949 and had three children.

Pre-War

Liberation

Nazi Invasion

Post War

Escape & Hiding

Reflections

Concentration Camp

Ferenc (Frank) Klein was born on June 7, 1932 in Hajduboszormeny, Hungary to an Orthodox Jewish family- parents Solomon and Lily, sister Agnes and twin brother Otto. In 1944, the Klein family was forced into the ghetto before being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where Frank and Otto were selected by Dr. Mengele for twin experimentation. They remained there until they were liberated in January 1945 at the age of 12. Otto was hospitalized in Switzerland to recover from tuberculosis and remained there. Frank immigrated to the United States, making his home in El Paso, Texas. Frank died in 1986.

Concentration Camp

Pre-War

Antisemitism

Post War

Nazi Invasion

The Ghetto

Liberation

Reflections

Deportation

Hannah (Schmidt) Burstein was born on January 8, 1922 in Tarnow, Poland to Mendle and Amalia Schmidt. She had four brothers and one sister. After the Nazi invasion, Hannah and her family were forced into the Tarnow Ghetto. From there Hannah was sent to Plaszow concentration camp with her father who perished there. She was then sent to Auschwitz. Hannah was liberated from a labor camp in Czechoslovakia in May 1945. After the war, Hannah married Paul Burstein, and they had a son. They immigrated to El Paso, Texas. Hannah died in 1995.

Auschwitz

Antisemitism

Concentration Camp

Early Life

Nazi Invasion

Henry Kellen was born in Lodz, Poland in 1915. His family- parents Moses and Helena, sister Sonia, and brother Moniek- moved to Lithuania while Henry earned his degree in France. In 1941, Lithuania was occupied, and Henry and his family were forced into the Kovno Ghetto. His father and brother were killed shortly after. In 1944, Henry, his wife Julia, and his nephew Jerry escaped the ghetto and were hidden by a Lithuanian farmer until liberation by the Soviet Army in July 1944. Henry, Julia, and Jerry came to the United States in 1946. Henry is the founder of El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center.

Irene Osborne (Ingeborge Eichberg) was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1927. Her family- parents Joseph and Emmy Eichberg and sister, Ruth – were Orthodox Jews. After Kristallnacht and the arrest of Joseph, Emmy sent her daughters to France. Irene and Ruth lived as Protestants under false names with relatives in La Bastide-des-Jourdans in Aix-en-Provence until the arrival of the American Army in France in 1944. In 1946 Irene immigrated to the United States where she married Herald Osborne (Hans Oppenheim) and had three children. Irene moved to El Paso after the death of her husband in 1992.