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Andrea Some Date
November 21, 2008 09:17 PM |
I lost many cousins during the Holocaust, in addition to my great grandmother who I am named after. We will always remember those relatives and the family we never had as a result of that loss. They are with us every day in all we do. |
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Aaron Winston Date
November 21, 2008 09:10 PM |
It was a very touching night. I've been left with images of the horrors of Nazi Germany before, but only through texts and pictures, which fail to impart the true devastation caused. It was a learning experience. |
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Calvi Date
October 15, 2008 12:24 PM |
My grandfather’s parents were originally from Italy and moved to Bolivia between 1940 to 1945. My father has no background information regarding his grandparents or why they moved. I would like to know if there’s and records with last name Calvi. |
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Maggie/Willard Lynch Date
October 14, 2008 02:26 PM |
To Tere'sa And Russell Dean[babyboy] Lynch II. We hold you both in our Hearts until, We can hold you in our arms. We Love You Both Always.
Father-in-Law/ Mother-in-Law Willard And Maggie Lynch. And Mama ,Papa Lynch
In Memory Of Kenith
Muneski , [ P.O.W. 1944-1945].
And
Mrs. Tere'sa P. Derheim |
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Elliott Shem-Tov Date
September 11, 2008 04:31 AM |
I visited the USHMM about 4 years ago. I am Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust. This was one of the most powerful Museums I have ever witnessed. I cried the entire way through. When I exited, I realized just how proud I was to be a jew. These SIX MILLION people died for us and I will never forget them. Never forget and NEVER AGAIN! |
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Carol Lipton Saltzman Date
August 13, 2008 12:03 AM |
My mother, Sonia Lipton nee Habler, is a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Eschwege, Germany in 1924. Her parents, younger brother, sister and herself were deported to the Riga Ghetto in Dec. 1941. She was 17 and was part of a slave labor force in Nazi munitions factory. Her parents and younger siblings disappeared in April 1942 while she was at work. No trace of her family was found and it is presumed they were killed in the nearby forests. She spent the rest of the war in Torun (Thorn), a sub-camp of Stutthof in Poland and liberated by the Russian army in early 1945. My mother made her way westward with the aid of partisans to her birthplace in Germany. She emigrated to the US in 1946 and was reunited with her one surviving sister. I feel a special responsibility to make sure that the Holocaust survivors and victims are never forgotten and that the world actively fights genocide wherever it occurs. It is a miracle that my brother and I and our children are alive and live in a country where we can practice our religion freely . My mother who is 83 has incredibly taught us to be optimistic and to fight intolerance wherever we find it. I mourn all those innocents who lost their lives and their loved ones. |
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lauren Date
August 11, 2008 06:21 PM |
Hello, my grandfather was a holocaust survivor his name was yankel skolnik.He recently died from Alzheimer's disease he was 87 when he passed away. Every since then i have been wanting to come to the museum with my family. We are finally making a trip to washington D.C. to see the united states holocaust memorial museum.I remember when i was younger i asked my grandfather how come he had numbers tattoed on his arm he would say when you get older i will tell you the stories.As i grew up My grandfather told us a lot of stories about the holocaust he was the only one out of his family to survive. He told us that one day the officer gave pitty on him and gave him a cheese sandwich the officer told him if someone caught him to tell them that he found it in the garbage. A officer did end up finding him and the officer shot him in the wrist the officer said he was going to kill him him but one of the guys said dont kill him he runs the machines. Not a day did my grandfather never mention this guy that saved his life! he said he was a very lucky man. There are so many more stories i can share but this was the most important one to me. God bless everyone who went through the holocaust. |
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yakov miller Date
August 10, 2008 07:32 PM |
i was born in puspokladany(hungary) on yuly 18 1943 my mother a"h told me that i was one year old when we got to bergen belsen i also know that from p.ladany we vent to the Debrecen ghetto also i was told we where in theresienstadt also in dachau and strasshof. enyone who joind our group please get in touch i am interested in more details thnx. |
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Elizabeth Date
August 07, 2008 12:56 PM |
Hello, My grandfather was a survivor of the holocaust. His name is Ralph Holly Green. I remember a young child asking him why he had a phone number on his arm he always said its no phone number child. My grandfather never talked about what happened to him or even of his back ground. I would like to find out more about his past and his long lost family if there is any out there! Thanks, God Bless. |
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Genevieve (Jaksender) Roberts Date
June 27, 2008 02:34 PM |
I was born in Bergen-Belsen January 19, 1946. My original birth certificate even lists Begen-Belsen as my birthplace although the new one issued by Germany now states Celle. Now that the Nazi archives are being released I hope to solve a couple of family mysteries. My mother was taken prisoner in Kharkov (USSR) in 1943 and transported to Germany. She met my father at the slave labor camp (an agricultural work camp near Luneburg) where she was eventually sent. He had been sent there from Poland in 1939. Turned over to Soviet forces in 1945 according to the terms of the Yalta agreement on forced repatriation she managed to escape from a holding camp in Stettin and with the help of French POW's returned to the Western sector and found my father. Bergen-Belsen was the main camp for the sub-camp so thery were sent to Bergen-Belsen as DPs and I was born there. We had always been told that her maiden name was Tarasenko but upon her death in 1994 a friend who had lived through the ordeal with her said that might not be true, that she had been married before her capture and given the circumstances didn't know if her husband was dead or alive. Therefore Tarasenko might have been her married name. I have been told that the Nazi archieves hold index cards with very detailed information on each individual taken prisoner by the Nazis. I'm hoping to find information on my mother, Lidia (Lydia) Tarasenko and my father Bronislaw Jaksender in the records. They both always refused to speak of the ordeal. Only once did my mother mention how people were executed at the rail station where they were loaded on cattle cars and so many died in the cars during transportation and the sheer terror during the selection process upon arrival at Bergen-Belsen. |
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