After the war, the family settled in New York. Virtually all of his relatives in Germany and Poland were killed during the Holocaust. His family fled to England just a few years later, where his father was held in an internment camp on suspicion of being a possible spy, and Aryeh lived in a home for refugee children for a year. Read her interview in our Digital Collections.Īryeh Neier was born in Berlin in 1937, the child of Galician Jews. Working with displaced persons after the war, she eventually became a leading psychiatric social worker and teacher. She was shot while participating in resistance activities. She lived as a non-Jewish Pole but her Jewish appearance frequently put her life in danger and caused her to flee. During the Second World War, she lost her husband, parents, and virtually her entire family, in an atmosphere of horrific violence and starvation. ![]() She battled antisemitic quotas and violence to study Polish literature in Lviv in the late 1930’s. Maria Rosenbloom grew up in Kolomija in a wealthy and religious family. Read his interview in our Digital Collections. where he met Albert Einstein and got Einstein's recommendation to study physics, helping to develop today’s flat screen televisions. His engineering skills saved his life many times during the war. He survived the ghettos, the camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and lost nearly his entire family. Read her interview in our Digital Collections.Įgon Loebner was an accomplished student in Czechoslovakia, who dreamed of becoming a diplomat but chose engineering because he knew he would have to emigrate due to antisemitism. She was the only one in her family to survive and came to the United States in 1946, writing a memoir about her experiences. ![]() Active in the underground youth movement, she lived as a Polish non-Jew in Warsaw, outside of the ghetto, and worked as a courier, carrying out illegal missions such as hiding people, smuggling documents, and organizing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ![]() Vladka Meed ( Feigele Pelte Miedzyrzecki) was a teenager when the Nazis occupied Poland.
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