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CLARA GROSSMAN

CLARA EMERGED FROM AUSCHWITZ A 15-YEAR-OLD ORPHAN. ARRIVING IN THE USA IN 1948, SHE COMPLETED HER SCHOOLING IN PENNSYLVANIA WHERE SHE LIVED WITH RELATIVES.

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EVA HARTWICH

THEY FLED TO SHANGHAI WHERE EVA’S AUNT AND UNCLE HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED A HOME AND A BUSINESS. SHANGHAI WAS OCCUPIED BY THE JAPANESE AND WAS THE ONLY PLACE THAT WOULD ACCEPT JEWISH IMMIGRANTS WITHOUT A VISA.

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Jack Mandelbaum

Jack Mandelbaum grew up in the port city of Gdynia, Poland, where his father, Mejloch, owned a fish cannery and where the family, including his mother Tzesia and two siblings, lived in a large apartment near the beach.

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Isak Federman

Isak Federman, the sole survivor of his family,was 17 years old when the Germans occupied Wolbrom. A short while later, he was grabbed off the street by the SS and sent to the first of a series of labor and concentration camps. He was liberated by the British at Sandbostel, a sub-camp of Neuengamme, in 1945.

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Ann Federman

Ann Federman was the next-to-youngest of nine children born to Miriam and Abraham Warszawski in Będzin, Poland. Only fourteen when the Germans invaded Poland, Ann spent the war in Parschnitz, a slave labor in camp in Czechoslovakia.

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Bronia Roslawowski

Bronia survived a ghetto, five concentration camps and a death march. Arriving in Kansas City in 1947, she trained as a nurse, raised her family, and ran the M&M Bakery.

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Sonia Warshawski

Sonia and her mother were deported to the Majdanek death camp. Her mother did not survive. Sonia was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and then to Bergen-Belsen where the British liberated her. At the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp she met her husband John. The couple came to Kansas City in 1948.

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Ilsa Cole

Ilsa Dahl grew up in Geilenkirchen, Germany where her family had lived for generations. They were observant Jews and patriotic Germans, and Ilsa’s father had served in the German army during World War I. Of the town’s 4000 inhabitants, most were Roman Catholics, with whom the family enjoyed friendly relations.

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Maria Devinki

Maria Devinki grew up in Wodzisław, Poland. The Germans sent her father to Treblinka and forced the rest of the family into a ghetto. In 1943, after a year spent as a slave laborer in the Skarżysko complex, a Polish army officer helped Maria leave the camp and hide – along with her husband, her mother, and her brothers.

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Sonia Golad

Sonia Golad, the daughter of Esther and Israel Borowik, grew up in Vilna, Poland, where she attended a private Jewish day school. In her free time, she ice skated and skied, read Sholem Aleichem and I. L. Peretz, and wrote to a pen pal in New York. She remembers long Sunday walks to visit family and friends in the suburbs and carefree summers with her siblings on a farm.

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Isaac Feinsilver

Isaac Feinsilver grew up in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. While in the Tomaszów Ghetto he met and married his wife, June. After that, he was deported to several camps – among them, Bliżyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Buchenwald, where the Americans liberated him in 1945.

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Abe Gutovitz

Abe Gutovitz grew up in Białobrzegi, Poland, near Warsaw. In 1942, Abe and two of his brothers were deported from their ghetto to slave labor in the Skarżysko ammunition complex and the Częstochowa camp. In 1944, Abe and one of his brothers were taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where the Americans liberated him in 1945.

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Tiberius Klausner

Tiberius Klausner was four years old when he first heard a Gypsy violinist in the café next to his father Hermann’s restaurant in Arad, Romania. He started lessons at age six, practicing several hours a day, supervised by his mother Miriam Margarita. For recreation, he played chess with his younger brother.

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Judy Jacobs

In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary, and from July to December, Judy and her parents were incarcerated in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, while her grandparents and her extended family were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau and her mother’s brother died in a forced labor camp.

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Kate Lebovitz

Kate Lebovitz, her two older half brothers and her parents enjoyed a middle class lifestyle in Budapest, Hungary. Barred from gymnasium, Kate chose to learn a trade and was apprenticed to a hat maker. During the war she met and married her husband Gene in the Budapest Ghetto. For a time, Kate and Gene passed as Christians and helped a Zionist organization smuggle sick people out of the ghetto.

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Norbert Lipschuetz

Norbert Lipschuetz grew up in Berlin, where he was born in 1925. He sang in the boys’ choir at the synagogue where his was one of the last bar mitzvahs before Kristallnacht. In 1934, he was expelled from public school and had to attend a Jewish school, and in 1935, the Nazis stole his father’s carpet business.

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Leo Zemelman

Leo Zemelman was born in Wloclak, Poland where he lived with his parents and six siblings. Shortly after the German invasion of Poland Leo was separated from his family and spent the next four years in a series of labor camps and factories including Pozan, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and the Krups factory in Essen.

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Lilly Segelstein

Lilly spent her summers in the country on her grandparents’ farm. In Munkács, barred from attending school by antisemitic restrictions, Lilly learned to sew in a dressmaking shop. After the German occupation of Munkács, Lilly and her family were forced into a ghetto and from there deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Kurt Metzl

Kurt Metzl was only two years old when his home country, Austria, was annexed to Germany in March 1938. Having been warned by non-Jewish friends to leave if they could, Kurt’s father fled to Switzerland. Kurt and his mother joined him illegally when they disembarked during a train journey that stopped briefly in Switzerland and never re-boarded the train.

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Evelyn Bergl

On Kristallnacht, her father was arrested. After nearly a year in Buchenwald and Dachau, he was released on condition that he leave Evelyn Arzt was born in Vienna in 1932. On Kristallnacht, her father was arrested. After nearly a year in Buchenwald and Dachau, he was released on condition that he leave Austria in 24 hours. He made his way to Milan, where Evelyn, her mother and her brother joined him.

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MCHE is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016-2017 White Rose Student Essay Contest. First place in the 10th-12th grade division went to Ashton Stropes from Lone Jack High School and first place in the 8-9th grade division was won by Alex Gibson from Harmony Middle School. Congratulations to the winners and all of the finalists.

CLICK HERE for a complete list of the finalists and to read the winning essays.

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Holocaust Organizations, Scholars and Educators Sound Alarm on Surge in Hate Crimes Issue Call to Action to Lawmakers and Citizens

In a powerful statement issued by an array of Holocaust institutions, scholars and educators from around the world, an alarm is being sounded on the rise of groups that promote intolerance and hate speech. These 90 institutions and 71 individuals call on lawmakers to condemn white nationalist groups and ask citizens to be vigilant.

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Witnesses to the Holocaust Archive

Frank Adler
Emigration Germany Kristallnacht
Ralph Berets
In Hiding Netherlands
Evelyn Bergl
Austria In Hiding Italy Kristallnacht
Zdenko Bergl
In Hiding Italy Yugoslavia
Felicia Brill
Austria Czechoslovakia Emigration
Margalith Clarenberg
In Hiding Netherlands
Ilsa Cole
Emigration Germany Kristallnacht
Iser Cukier
Forced Labor In Hiding Poland
Tola Cukier
Auschwitz Forced Labor Poland Sosnowiec
Marianne Dennis
Berlin Germany In Hiding
Maria Devinki
In Hiding Poland
Dora Edelbaum
Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Poland
Gustave Eisemann
Berlin Emigration Germany
Ann Federman
Będzin Forced Labor Gross-Rosen Poland
Isak Federman
Forced Labor Poland Sachsenhausen
Isaac Feinsilver
Auschwitz Poland
June Feinsilver
Auschwitz Lodz Poland Warsaw
Abe Flekier
Auschwitz Białobrzegi Dachau Forced Labor Poland Stuttgart
Klaus Frank
Emigration Germany Kristallnacht Sachsenhausen
Sonia Golad
Bergen-Belsen Forced Labor Poland Stutthof Vilna
Reggie Goldberg
Emigration France Germany
Joseph Greenbaum
Auschwitz Buchenwald Dachau Forced Labor Poland Sachsenhausen
Clara Grossman
Auschwitz Hungary
Abe Gutovitz
Białobrzegi Buchenwald Forced Labor Poland
Bertha Gutovitz
Auschwitz Białobrzegi Forced Labor Poland
Joe Gutovitz
Białobrzegi Forced Labor Poland Warsaw
Dorothy Harding
Forced Labor Poland
Eva Hartwich
Emigration Germany Kristallnacht Shanghai
Werner Hartwich
Emigration Germany Kristallnacht Sachsenhausen Shanghai
Lea Indyk
Auschwitz Forced Labor Gross-Rosen Majdanek Poland Warsaw
Judy Jacobs
Bergen-Belsen Hungary
Ann Jacobson
Austria Emigration
Tiberius Klausner
In Hiding Romania
Abraham Kopec
Poland Soviet Union
Eugene Lebovitz
Czechoslovakia Forced Labor Hungary Mauthausen
Kate Lebovitz
Hungary
Kurt Levi
Emigration Germany
Tom Lewinsohn
Emigration Germany Kristallnacht Shanghai
Norbert Lipschuetz
Berlin Forced Labor Germany In Hiding Kristallnacht
Ida Loeffler
Auschwitz Krakow Poland
Jack Mandelbaum
Blechhammer Forced Labor Poland
Sigmund Mandelbaum
Auschwitz Buchenwald Forced Labor Krakow Lodz Poland Stuttgart Stutthof
Erika Mandler
Austria Czechoslovakia Emigration In Hiding
Kurt Metzl
Austria Emigration
Sara Mittelman
Poland Soviet Union
Molly Nagel
Poland Soviet Union
Mina Nisenkier
Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Lodz Poland
Sam Nussbaum
Auschwitz Forced Labor Mauthausen Poland
George Rosenberg
Emigration Germany Kristallnacht
Bronia Roslawowski
Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Poland
Michael Rothstein
Dachau Lithuania
Olga Rothstein
Auschwitz Dachau Hungary
Abe Sander
Będzin Buchenwald Forced Labor Gross-Rosen Poland
Chana Sander
Bergen-Belsen Forced Labor Gross-Rosen Poland
Sam Sander
Będzin Blechhammer Buchenwald Forced Labor Poland
Otto Schick
Auschwitz Austria Dachau Forced Labor Hungary Sachsenhausen
Boris Segelstein
Czechoslovakia Forced Labor Hungary
Lilly Segelstein
Auschwitz Czechoslovakia Forced Labor Gross-Rosen Hungary
Sylvan Siegler
Emigration Germany
Ernest Simon
Czechoslovakia Emigration
Malvina Stras
Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Hungary
Walter Stras
Auschwitz Buchenwald Forced Labor Germany Kristallnacht
Hanna Sukiennik
Będzin Forced Labor Gross-Rosen Poland
Frank Szasz
Forced Labor Hungary In Hiding
Bernard Tenenbaum
Dachau Forced Labor Poland Warsaw
Alegra Tevet
Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Greece
Ann Walters
In Hiding Poland
Sam P. Walters
Będzin Forced Labor Poland
Aron Warren
Będzin Buchenwald Forced Labor Poland
Sonia Warshawski
Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Forced Labor Majdanek Poland
Mania Weindling
Auschwitz Forced Labor Poland
Leo Zemelman
Auschwitz Buchenwald Forced Labor Poland
Rose Zemelman
Bergen-Belsen Forced Labor Gross-Rosen Poland Sosnowiec