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Shep Zitler
Shep Zitler was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. -
Joseph Sher
Joseph was born in Krzepice, Poland and was a tailor before the war started. -
Isak Borenstein
Isak was born in Radom, Poland. -
Mein Kampf
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Nazi Party began
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Hitler elected Chancellor
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Henrich Himmler-chief of SS commands concentration camps
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Swastika adopted as national flag
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Joseph Sher
Sher read in a Yiddish newspaper about how Mrs. Roosevelt helped people in all kinds of cases. He sent her a card written in Polish wishing her a happy birthday and asking if she could help bring him to the United States, but he never got a reply. -
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Buchenwald Concentration camp opened
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Shep Zitler
Six months before World War II began, Shep was drafted into the Polish army. -
Germany invades Poland/ WW2 begins
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Shep Zitler
Around this time, Shep and his unit were captured by Radom and taken to a prisoner of war camp. Shep Zitler's Holocaust -
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Shep Zitler
For about five and a half years, Shep was sent to various camps and forced to labor around the clock just to stay alive. -
Isak Borenstein
When the Germans came into Poland, he ran away to Russia and traveled as far as Krasnodar, where he worked as a carpenter. -
Germany starts all deportation of German Jews
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France sends 17, 000 Jews to camps-massive deportation begins
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Isak Borenstein
When Hitler invaded Russia, he joined the Russian army. They were sent to a place near Kremenchug, but before they could fight they were caught in a pocket and surrounded by the Germans. -
Eva Galler
On this day, it was the first time Eva and her family realized that the Germans were the start of their problems. -
110,000-Japanese Americans placed in work camps until war is over
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Solomon Radasky
Deportations of Radasky's family started on July 22, 1942. His 2 sisters and 2 brothers went to Treblinka.That was the last time he saw his family. -
Joseph Sher
At this time, during the holiday of Yom Kippur, there was a big deportation from the ghetto. Germans surrounded the building and told everybody to leave their apartments and to go down to the courtyards. -
Eva Galler
In September, Eva and her family and all the other Jews were told that they could take whatever they could carry and walk 7 kilometers to the next town of Lubaczow where the ghetto was. It was the size of one city block for 7,000 people. Some were lucky enough to have a roof over their heads. -
Eva Galler
This was the first day of the deportations. The Gestapo, Polish, and Ukranian police chased all the Jews from their homes. It took several days. When Eva and her family were taken to the train station, her father told her and her brother and sister to jump and run. Only Eva made it, her brother and sister were killed. Eva ran and hid in Vienna working on a farm with other boys and girls but none knew she was Jewish. -
Isak Borenstein
He was put into a labor camp near Dnepropetrovsk. -
SS troops send Jews in Warsaw after revolt to camps-56, 065 out of 60,000 were killed
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Solomon Radasky
On this day, Solomon was shot in his right ankle. It didn't hit his bone so he didn't lose his leg, but he was still very injured. Later on a man he met, who used to be a doctor, operated on his leg with only a pocketknife. Solomon Radasky's Holocaust -
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Joseph Sher
In these years during the war, Joseph lived in the HASAG slave labor camp making ammunition for the German army. -
Solomon Radasky
In July, Solomon was put into a group of 750 and sent to Auschwitz. He was tattoed on his arm with a number of 128232. The seperate numbers add up to 18. -
Germans plan to breed an Aryan elite race by making unmarried womenbear SS troops’ children
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Solomon Radasky
When he worked, he was next to the crematoria, he would see the most horrific sights. He saw Germans grab living children by the arms and legs and throw them into the crematorium. Radasky would also see who would be going into the gas chambers and who would be getting into the real showers. -
Joseph Sher
Around 10:00 in the morning a Russian soldier went into Joseph's camp and simply told them that they were free and left. The war was finally over for them! -
Solomon Radasky
Auschwitz was liberated on January 18, and that same day Solomon left. Him and many others had to walk until they came to a railroad station. The train ride to Dachau was so bad that a man's son went crazy and choked his father to death. -
Shep Zitler
Shep Zitler and his fellow Jews were liberated on this day by the Russian calvary. -
Solomon Radasky
The 26th of April is when Solomon left Dachau. It was then liberated on May 1. While on the train ride, Solomon had to get out and help clean up after bombings. While cleaning he took a piece of bread and ate it because it gve him hope that he would live. -
Solomon Radasky
On this day at 4am, Solomon and others woke to hear Americans coming to them! They were told thye were free and even given shoes and clothing. They were also given three meals day for weeks. In November of 1946 he even got married to his wife and in 1950 they moved to the United States. -
Eva Galler
This day was when the Germans started to draw back and Russians came to the farm Eva was staying at. This is the one way Eva helped out the farmers she was staying with; Russians were starting to rape the women so she spoke to them and saved them. -
Eva Galler
Eva was brought back to Breslau, but figured out she couldn't go back to her hometown in Poland because Russia had taken it over. She later learned that the out of the 3,000 Jewish families from her hometown, only 12 people survived. -
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Joseph Sher
At this time, Joseph and his wife Rachel were living in a Displaced Person's camp in Germany with other Jewish survivors in the little town of Neunburg vorm Wald, which is near Regensburg. -
Isak Borenstien
Borenstien participated in a memorial service and parade to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and promote migration to Israel in Germany near Munich. -
Shep Zitler
Shep's uncle in New Orleans sponsored Shep to go to America. On this day, Shep's ship arrived in the United States of America, and he stayed with one of his unit members who also survived the labor camp. -
Joseph Sher
This newspaper shows the excitement that came about when the Sher family became one of the first survivor families to settle in New Orleans after a long wait in Displaced Persons camps in Germany. -
Joseph Sher
The Holocaust survivors who had settled in New Orleans posed on the steps of the Jewish Community Center facing St. Charles Avenue. They went on a tour of the city sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women Service to the Foreign Born Program. -
Eva Galler
Eva married and lived in Sweden for 8 years. After the war, Eva and her husband moved to the United States . She learned English by helping her eldest daughter do her homework. Eventually, after 7 years in New York, Eva and her husband moved to New Orleans in 1962 where they started their own tailoring business with their 3 girls.
