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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. […]

Liebman, Lucie

Lucie Burian Liebman was born in 1927 in Vienna, Austria to parents of Czech nationality. In 1938, after the Anschluss of Austria, Lucie woke up to Nazi flags hanging from every building along her street. Lucie, her brother Paul, and her parents fled Vienna and moved to Prague to be with her grandparents. But persecution […]

Lipson, Rachel

Rachel (Goodman Bendalin) Lipson was born on April 18, 1910 in Shaudina, Lithuania to Jacob and Chana (Goodman) Bendalin. She lived on and helped run her parents’ farm. She had four brothers and two sisters. Rachel met Sundel Lipson, and they were married in 1931. Sundel and Rachel moved to Kovno, where they had two […]

Lipson, Sundel

Sundel Lipson was born on February 15, 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania to Mayer and Gitel Lipsches. He had five brothers and one sister. Sundel met and married Rachel Goodman Bendalin, from Shaudina, Lithuania, in 1931. Sundel and Rachel had two children, Moshe, born in 1934, and Mina, born in 1937. Sundel and his brother, Lazar, […]

Mason, Hilde

Hilde Grunebaum was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923 to Julius and Hedwig Seligman Grunebaum. They were a “sophisticated” city family and good German Reform Jews. Hedwig’s birthday was November 9, and on November 9, 1938, directly after her birthday party, the family climbed to the rooftop of their apartment building and watched their synagogue […]

Mason, Lee

Of the 600 hundred citizens in the village of Meimbressen, Germany, 70 of them were Jewish. It is now considered a lost community, as not one Jewish family is left. Lee Mason was born Leopold Juda, the only son of Solomon and Bertha Klee Juda. Lee’s parents saw the handwriting on the wall shortly after […]

Oppenheim, Irma

Irma (Wertheim) Oppenheim was born in 1924 in Falkenberg, a small community near Kassel, Germany. She had one older sister, Lotte Wertheim. Their father was a successful merchant, but her family suffered from anti-Semitism all the years of her childhood. Irma’s aunt immigrated to the United States in 1936 and started immediately working to secure […]

Osborne, Irene

Irene Osborne (Ingeborg Eichberg) was born in 1927 in Koblenz, Germany to Josef and Emmy Eichberg. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht, their synagogue was destroyed by Nazis. The next day, the family’s apartment was raided and destroyed, and Irene’s father was arrested and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. Irene fled with her sister, Ruth, […]

Pergricht, Arlene

Arlene (Grunberger, Shugart) Pergricht was born in 1912 in Budapest, Hungary. She had three brothers and three sisters. Her father was a jeweler. Arlene married in 1942, and in July of that year her son, Peter, was born. When she was still pregnant, Arlene’s husband was taken for forced labor in Russia. Arlene never heard […]

Pergricht, Bernard

Bernard Pergricht was born in Sosnowiec, Poland on April 12, 1913. When Poland was taken over by the Nazis, Bernard lost his job at a lumber company when that company was “Aryanized.” All Jews were told to get an ID card to receive food rations. Twenty thousand gathered in a sports arena for this purpose, […]

Rose, Eric

Eric (Rosenzweig) Rose was born on February 18, 1914 in Vienna, Austria. Just as conditions for Jews in Vienna were worsening, Eric barely escaped what would have been a certain death. He was warned by a fellow countryman that he would be selected by the Nazis the following day. Ironically, Eric hid in a train […]

Rybak, Nathan

Nathan Rybak was born in 1912 in Radom, Poland. He was the second youngest of eight brothers and sisters. The family lived on a dairy farm and, because the synagogue played an important role in his early life, Nathan at one point wanted to be a rabbi. Nathan left Poland with his younger brother in […]

Saks, Eric

Eric Saks was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926. When the Nazis took over Austria in 1938, his family went into hiding in Vienna for several months. They escaped to Italy, but there was trouble on the train at the border. Men from the Italian side, who were not partisan to Hitler, helped get the […]

Schaechner, Agnes

Agnes Klein was born in August 1930 in Debrecen, Hungary to Solomon Klein and Lily Schwartz Klein. She had younger twin brothers, Otto and Ferenc. Her father owned a lumber business in the town of Hajdúböszörmény, where she grew up. Agnes enjoyed a happy childhood until 1943, when new laws barred her from school. As […]

Schaechner, Tibor

Tibor Schaechner was born in Budapest, Hungary on March 28, 1928. His father owned a feather and down business, and Tibor and his sister, Magda, enjoyed a comfortable middle class upbringing. Starting in 1939, the Hungarian government adopted the Nazi ideology. In 1941, Tibor’s maternal grandparents and two of his uncles, who had problems with […]

Schkoll, Mike

Mike (Wolfgang) Schkoll was born to Jakob and Mimi Schkoll on June 5, 1936 in Velbert, Germany. He attended public schools in Germany, but eventually his parents made an effort to start a new life for Mike by trying to get visas for another country. They tried to immigrate to England, the United States, and […]

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 the United States in 1949. [REDIRECT_ME url=”https://elpasoholocaustmuseum.org/survivor-exhibit-english/” sec=”80″] Continue in English Comienza en Español

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 into parts of France yet unoccupied by the Nazis. She was able to briefly visit her home in 1942 to learn that her father, Leon […]

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 of Austria in 1938, she was walking to get a pastry with her brother when Nazi soldiers appeared and arrested him. He was sent to […]

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 there. While in Palestine, he worked on a kibbutz (collective farm). Wanting to immigrate to New York, Lee went to the German consulate in Haifa […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]