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The Life of Solomon Radasky
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Captured
In 1941, Solomon Radasky was captured by S.S. men and forced to clean snow off of railroads. -
Mother and Oldest Sister Killed
His mother and oldest sister were killed in the last week of January in 1941. He returned from shoveling snow and found them both shot. He found out it was because the S.S. men were going around collecting jewelry andfurs and his mother said she had none.
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Father Killed
His father went to buy bread from children who smuggled it into the ghetto and a Jewish policeman who saw it happen told a German about it. The German shot his father in the back. "Smuggling began at the very moment that the Jewish area of residence was established; its inhabitants were forced to live on 180 grams of bread a day, 220 grams of sugar a month, 1 kg. of jam and 1 kg. of honey, etc. " (http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocRing1.htm). -
Deportations Begin
Deportations began and all of his siblings were sent to Treblinka. That was the last time he saw anyone from his family again. "When I came to Treblinka the camp commandant was a doctor named Dr. Eberl. He was very ambitious. It was said that he ordered more transports than could be "processed" in the camp. That meant that trains had to wait outside the camp because the occupants of the previous transport had not yet all been killed." (http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocTreb.htm) -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
He stayed in the ghetto and ran his family's coat shop up until this date, when the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. He was in the uprising until May 1. "The uprising lasted from April 19th to May 16th. The Nazis were able to overcome the vastly outnumbered and poorly armed Jewish resistance fighters." (http://www.historycentral.com/ww2/events/WarsawGhettoUprising.html) -
Shot in the Ankle
He got shot in the right ankle and was sent to Majdanek. This was another death camp. There a man operated on his ankle for him. He spent 9 weeks here before he went through another deportation. -
Auschwitz
He was transferred to Auschwitz. There he survived the selection and got tattooed his identification number. "The basic principle behind everything is: conserve all manpower for work. The previous type of "resettlement action" has been thoroughly rejected, since it is too costly to destroy precious work energy on a continual basis. " (http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocAusch.htm). -
Working
He got out of working in the coal mines thanks to a couple of the guys he made friends with. Instead he worked for over a year with the same guys digging sand. The sand was for covering the ashes of the crematoria. He saw all the people going in. -
Living Children
In August and Sptember of 1944, he saw them throw living children into the crematioria. They would grab them by an arm and a leg and throw them in. -
Liquidation
They began liquidating Auschwitz. Solomon left the day the began. Then 7 days later the Russians liberated it. -
Gross-Rosen
They walked for a night until they got to a stable, where they stayed the night. Then they got on a train and a train brought them to Gross-Rosen in two days. There he was put in a shed with 2 thousand men and was fed a slice of bread and cup of coffee each day. -
Dachau
They walked them to a railroad station and in three days they were in Dachau. On the train ride up they ate snow for water. A man was on the train with his son who went insane and choked his father to death. -
Left Dachau
He left Dachau on this day. -
Liberated
At 4 a.m. one morning they heard heavy traffic outside the train. "Everybody started hollering and crying. The American soldiers said we were free. They arrested the Germans and the Germans got scared. It was May 1, 1945." (http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/cgi-bin/data.show.pl?di=record&da=survivors&ke=7). -
Met Wife
Went to Turkheim with a friend to meet some of the people he used to work with. His wife was the friend's sister. -
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Son Born
His son was born on May 13, 1948 and the state of Israel was born on May 14, 1948. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mgmbill.org/images/BabyBoy3small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mgmbill.org/letters.htm&usg=__GKBuvlEDrYxYtTtHgtCWNh1Ud8g=&h=266&w=400&sz=23&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=ri6KWe6qcb6YM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=172&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djewish%2Bbaby%2Bboy%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2B60s%26um%3D1%26h%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1260%26bih%3D673%26tbs%3Disch: -
New Orleans
He went to New Orleans and got a job in a fur shop for 50 cents and hour even though the rate for beginners was 75 cents an hour. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.nola.com/fstoop/2008/10/medium_canal.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.nola.com/fstoop/2008/10/1950s_new_orleans_photos_displ.html&usg=__gc51hJBQyOFZnOO1yy-BZ22XRlk=&h=240&w=240&sz=76&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=IVrCMuG_IpwhSM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNew%2BOrleans%2Bin%2Bthe%2B50s%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfire -
First Vacation
He raised and educated his kids and he bought himself a sewing machine. In 1978 he and his wife, Frieda, took their first vacation to Israel. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.yourtravelsource.com/Gallery/Exotic_Places/EgyptSteve/Israel/map-of-israel.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.yourtravelsource.com/Gallery/Exotic_Places/EgyptSteve/Israel/israel.html&usg=__ZVujtg2g3s5B5CxMFt5pg3NkdB8=&h=300&w=400&sz=38&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=DL027CrKay56tM:&tbnh=155&tbnw=207&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIsra -
Death
He died at the age of 92 in his home in Oakland Park, Kansas. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.glogster.com/media/2/5/91/39/5913906.jpg&imgrefurl=http://singlelady.glogster.com/SCHOOL-PROJECT-HOLOCAUST-SURVIOR/&usg=__exMfoK04On02oOeR5f0M12M8RDY=&h=100&w=100&sz=4&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=mj8c8dTFveHu6M:&tbnh=80&tbnw=80&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSolomon%2BRadasky%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1260%26bih%3D673%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1
