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Henry Oertelt
He was born on January 13, 1921. His father died when he was very young, and lived with his mother, grandfather, and older brother. His family was religious, but they did not attend a synagogue regularly. -
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World War II
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Freda Wineman
She was born on September 6, 1923. Her family immigrated from France and she was the second oldest. The family were all Orthodox Jews. -
Mein Kampf
Hitler writes Mein Kampf while he was in prison. The point of this book was to inform people to form a "master race" of Aryans. The book did not directly affect these people because they were so young.
Freda Wineman- She was only two years old in 1925. Her family Sarreguemines, close to the German border. The family were Orthodox Jews.
Joli Hillman-Nov- She was born in Romania. Her father owned seltzer factory, and she spoke Hungarian with her family and Romanian outside her home. Her family w -
Joli Hillman-Noy
She was born in Romania. Her father owned seltzer factory, and she spoke Hungarian with her family and Romanian outside her home. Her family was not very religious. The picture shown is of Romania in 1925. -
Henia Bryer
Henia Bryer- She was born in December of 1925 in Poland. Her father was a sucessful businessman who owned a shoe factory and all of the children in the family attended a Jewiish day school. -
Nazi Party
The National Socialist Party was formed in Reichstag in Germany. The families of these survivors were affected because they knew about the "master race" situation. -
Henia Bryer
Her family spoke Polish at home and were a very traditional Jewish family, and celebrated all Jewish holidays. Before the war she did not have problems with antisemitism. -
Henry Oertlet
He went to a public school, and three times a week would attend a Jewish religious school. This eventually prepared him to become a Bar Mitzvah, which is a full memeber of the Jewish congregation. -
Freda Wineman
She was only seven years at the time the Nazi Party began to form. She was attending a private lycee during the week. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Joli and her familyi weren't very religious, but they observed Orthodox Jewish holidays. She was only five years old when the Nazi Party came to be, so she wasn't really aware. -
Peter Hersch
He was born in Czechosolovakia. His father was a merchant and his mother was a homemaker, they were not very wealthy. -
Hilter is Elected Chancellor
He changed Germany's form of government into a dictatorship. His goal was to form a "master race." The hatred for the Jews began to grow, concentration camps began to be built, and the Storm Trooper was established. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry was only twelve years old when Hitler came to power. In the years before that Henry and his family felt the hate from the anti-Jewish laws that were being established. His mother also lost her job in the textile industry. -
Freda Wineman
Before the war and when Hitler came to power, Freda and her family did not face any problems with antisemitism. -
Henia Bryer
Henia's family was very religious, and they observed all of the Jewish holidays. Before the war and when Hitler came to power their family did not face any problems. -
Peter Hersch
Peter and his family celebrated a lot of the Jewish holidays with their extended family, and even were able to maintain good relationships with non-Jewish people when Hitler came to power. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Joli and her family weren't very religious, but observed holidays in an Orthodox manner. Life remained pretty normal for Joli and her family when Hitler came to power. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry is now thirteen years old and is forbidded to play sports and school activites because of the anti-Jewish laws. -
Henia Bryer
Henia and her family still have not yet faced hardships of being Jewish in Europe at this time. -
Freda Wineman
Freda was now twelve years old and able to be a normal kid. The reign of Hitler had not yet reached her and her family yet. -
Peter Hersch
Peter and his family were still living their normal lives in Czecholslovakia and had many friends. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
The relationships between non-Jewish and Jewish people were still good. Joli still had a lot of non-Jewish friends as well as Jewish. -
Heinrich Himmler
Himmler assumes command of all the concentration camps and now his "black shirts" begin to police Germany. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry was expelled from public schools and him and his family were forced to have Star of David's put on their clothing. -
Freda Wineman
Freda was still living in the country side and still did not face any problems from the Nazi party yet. -
Peter Hersch
Peter is now only five years old and wasn't yet old enough to feel the effects of the Nazi party, but his family definitely did. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
The relationships between the non-Jewish and Jewish community were still pretty strong in Joli's hometown. -
Henia Bryer
Henia was still a happy and normal ten year old, she did not face any antisemetism before the war. -
The Swastika is Adopted as the Nazi Symbol
The Nazi flag is established and all of the Jews were required to wear a Star of David on their clothing. -
Peter Hersch
Peter was still way to young to realize what was going on around him and the community. -
Henry Oerlelt
Henry and his family still were facing the discrimination against Jews. Things were starting to just begin to het worse and worse. -
Henia Bryer
Henia and her family were still some the lucky ones that did not face much of the hatred that was begun by the Nazis. -
Freda Wineman
Freda was still able to lead a normal life with her family. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Joli was also one of the lucky ones who did not face much hatred until the war began. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Olympic games were held in Berlin and when Jesse Owens won four Gold Medals, Hitler did not even shake his hand. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry was still facing the hatred from the Nazis. They were being banned from more and more public places, and their non-Jewish friends were slowly fading away. -
Henia Bryer
This is the last year before Henia and her family were hit hard with the hardships of the war. -
Peter Hersch
Peter is the youngest of these five survivors and now his family was being to be persecuted for being Jewish. -
Freda Wineman
Freda was also not beginning to feel the hate from the Nazis till now. -
Joli Hillman- Noy
Her and her family were just now beginning to see and experience the awful discrimination from the Nazi party. -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opened
The first concentration is opened in August of 1937. The exact date is not known. -
Henia Bryer
Henia was only able to here about the awful stories from that night. Her and her family were not involved. -
Peter Hersch
In 1938, Peter and his family were annexted to the region surrounding Loza. The Jewish children were also segregated from the non-Jewish students. -
Freda Wineman
Freda was lucky to have not have gone through the Night of Broken Glass. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
In 1938, Joli's father and uncle established a Zioist temple in Sighet. Joli and her brother became youth members of the temple. -
Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass
This was an act of violence against the Jews through Poland and Germany. Around ninety Jews were killed on this night. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry was there on the Night of the Broken Glass. He survived with his family by his side. -
World War II Begins
Hilter invades Poland and the second World War has begun. The "Final Solution" was to exterminate all the Jews in Europe. -
Peter Hersch
Peter continued to live in segregation from non-Jewish people. Him and his family were also still annexed in the region of Loza. -
Freda Wineman
Once the war broke out Freda and her family moved to Blamont, France, where they thought they would be safer. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
The citry of Sighet, where Joli and her family lived, was talked about being annexed to Translysavina. -
Henia Bryer
Henia and her family were returning from family vacation and when they returned a curfew was set on the Jews where she was living. -
Henry Oertelt
Now that the war had offically broken out tons of rules and a curfew was set on many Jews. -
The Deportation of all German Jews
All of the Jews in Germany were being deported. The consturction of Auschwitz begins this year, and ghettos were built in Poland to keep all the Jews in. -
Henia Bryer
Henia and her family were forced to wear armbands with the Star of David on them to label them as Jews. Arrests and beatings of Jews became more and more common. -
Peter Hersch
Peter and his family were still living in the region of Loza and the beating of Jews was becoming more common as well. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry and his family had more and more rules imposed on them, but they continued to live in Berlin. -
Freda Wineman
In June of 1940 the family fled from Blamont, France to Magnet until the Germans caught up with them and overtook the town. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
In the summer of 1940 the life for Joli and her family became worse. More anti-Jewish restrictions were put in place in Sighet. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry and his family were forced to wear the Star of David and the Jewish population in Berlin began to decrease as many of the Jews were being deported. -
Peter Hersch
Peter and his family continued to live in the region of Loza. -
Freda Wineman
In Saint Etienne, where the Nazis took them, their ration cards were stamped with J's to indicate they were Jewish, but they did not have to wear the Star of David. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Joli for the first time felt the hatred from the war. One of her non-Jewish friends no longer would sit with her or hang out with her anymore. -
17,000 Jews were Deported from France
The French government sent away 17,000 Jews to concentration camps because they were interfering with the government. -
Henia Bryer
Henia and her family were forced into the main ghetto. Her brother was handicapped, and since he could not work he was shot. -
Jews sent to Bergen-Belsen and Ghettos Liquidated to Auschwitz
All Jews were sent away to concentration camps and none were still living in the ghettos after 1942. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry's home city of Berlin was continuing to be liquidated and fewer and fewer Jews were living there. -
Henia Bryer
In 1942 Henia worked as a steamstress and her and her family moved into a very small ghetto. -
Peter Hersch
Peter and his family are still living in the region of Loza annexted. -
Freda Wineman
Life in Saint Etienne was very difficult and food was in very short supply. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Joli's family had no idea what was happening to the Jews in the Nazi occupation of Europe. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry, his mother, and his brother were all transported to a ghetto/concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Henry was in awe of the living conditions and the starving people. -
Henia Bryer
She began to work in a small workplace as a steamstress in the ghetto she was living in, She had to dodge being taken away and shot many times. -
Peter Hersch
This is the final year Peter and his family can live somewhat peacfully in Loza. -
Freda Wineman
Freda bartered with peasants in France in order to provide food for her family. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Joli's boyfriend, Sam Hillman, learned that his parents were killed in Poland. He wanted Joli to flee to the mountains with him, but she could not leave her family. -
Revolt in Warsaw
A uprising in a ghetto in Warsaw led to 60,000 Jews killed. -
Germans Plan to Breed Aryan Race
The Germans begin to force unmarried women to breed with SS Troops to begin the Aryan race. -
Henry Oertelt
Henry and his brother were forced into cattle cars and sent away to Auschwitz. Henry was assigned to force labor part of the camp until he was transfered to build furniture. His mother was killed in the gas chambers. Henry lived through a three day death march. He was transfered to another part of the camp and lost the connection with his brother. -
Peter Hersch
The Germans arrived to Loza and sent everyone to a ghetto and Peter's brother died during the move. Peter, his father, and sister worked at Auschwitz, but his mother and younger sisters were killed there. Peter was transfered again where he had to stand naked in the cold and suffered from frostbite. -
Henia Bryer
Her and her family were sent to a concentration camp in Poland and there were very few survivors. They were sent to another camp where her father was beaten to death. Her sister was sent to Auschwitz to die while she worked as a maid for the SS Troops. On her 19th birthday she was snuck a piece of bread. -
Freda Wineman
Just one month before Normandy, Freda was sent to a detention camp in France. She was separated from her family in Auschwitz and never saw them again, Freda witnessed the exucution of so many people and the horrible conditions of the camps. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Right after Sam and Joli were married they were sent to Auschwitz. She worked along side her mom and sister and refused to leave there sides. -
Liberation
The war is over and all of the concentration camps are liberated by the allied forces, -
Henia Bryer
Henia was liberated from Bergen-Belsen by the British Army. -
Joli Hillman-Noy
Joli, her mother, and her sister were liberated from Auschwitz, but her mother and sister did not recover and passed away. -
Henry Oertelt
Right before Henry and 100,000 prisoners were about to go on a death march the U.S. liberated his camp. -
Peter Hersch
Peter was liberated by American forces on May 4,1945. -
Freda Wineman
Freda's camp was liberated by the Soviet Union.
