http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50621 2013-05-22T13:01:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83451 While Other Children Played: A Hidden Child Remembers the Holocaust Gorman, Erna Kriigel, Barbara J. Trapped in Poland at the outbreak of the war, Erna Blitzer Gorman and her family were moved from one ghetto to another. When a Ukrainian farmer agreed to hide the small family in his hayloft, no one dreamed that they would be there for almost two years. When the Russians liberated the area, the family was forced to leave their hiding place and join the advancing army. After the tragic death of Erna's mother, the girls and their father struggled for survival and to get home to France. Erna never spoke of her experiences to anyone for almost forty years until she heard a stranger's words of hate on the television. Faced with long-repressed memories, Erna had to learn how to cope with her past. 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58319 Interview of Noemi Engel Ebenstein Ebenstein, Noemi Engel; Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L. An interview with Noemi Engel Ebenstein, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Ebenstein, born in 1941, is a child survivor of the Holocaust. In her interview she retells stories told to her by her mother about how the family survived the Holocaust. Her father was sent to a forced labor camp when Noemi was a baby. In May 1944, Noemi, her brother and mother were deported from Subotica, Yugoslavia to the camps, first to Strasshof labor and then to Moosbierbaum where they were liberated by the Soviet army. 1996-07-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57191 Michael Weiss interview Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L.; Weiss, Michael An interview with Michael Weiss, a survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Sid Bolkosky. An interview with Michael Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. Born in Kascony, Czechoslovakia, Mr. Weiss chronicles his experiences under the Czechoslovakians, Hungarians and Germans, both prior to and during the Second World War. Mr. Weiss and his family were shipped to the Hungarian ghetto of Beregszasz (Berehovo) in 1944. From Beregszasz, the family was deported to Auschwitz where his mother was gassed by the Germans. From Auschwitz, Weiss and his father were sent to Buchenwald and then on to Zeitz, located approximately fifteen miles south of Leipzig in Central Germany. 1995-08-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57182 Szymon Binke interview Binke, Szymon; Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L. An interview with Szymon Binke, a survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Sidney Bolkosky. An interview with Szymon Binke, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Born in Łódź, Poland in 1931, Mr. Binke relates his experiences growing up in Poland before and during the war. According to Mr. Binke, prior to the German invasion of 1939, he and his family experienced very little anti-Semitism by the Polish population and his father, who owned a feed store, worked very closely with many Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) living in, Łódź prior to the outbreak of the war. Mr. Binke’s family, consisting of his mother, father, a younger sister and six aunts and uncles remained in Łódź after the German invasion of 1939. Shortly after the invasion, all Jews in Łódź were required to relocate to the Baluty district of the city, which became the Jewish Ghetto. After relocation, twelve members of the Binke family settled in their grandfather’s house which was already located in the Ghetto. Once in the ghetto, Mr. Binke worked at several different jobs including in a metal factory, the Altschuhlager (old shoe factory) and selling candy in the ghetto. After several years of living in the Ghetto, the Binke family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau ca. 1944. Mr. Binke has no recollection of the round-up or deportation, only that he and his family had hidden from the Germans but were caught. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mr. Binke’s mother, aunt, sister and one female cousin were gassed and Mr. Binke along with his father and four uncles were taken to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Camp), where Mr. Binke was separated from his father and uncle’s. Mr. Binke was placed in the Kinderblock (Youth Block) across a fence from his father and uncles. To see his remaining family, Mr. Binke jumped the fence separating him from their block and realizing it was too late to return to the Kinderblock, Mr. Binke remained there and was able to be transferred to the Kaufering work camps with his father and uncles several days later. After transfer to the Kaufering forced labor camps, (a series of sub-camps attached to the main camp at Dachau), Mr. Binke and his father remained together, both being transferred from Kaufering to Landshut and then to Mühldorf. In Mühldorf, Mr. Binke worked at a cloister where the resident nuns gave him extra rations and when he later contracted typhus, helped him recover. Mr. Binke and his father were liberated in May 1945, while aboard a train in Seeshaupt, Germany. His father became ill in Bad Tölz and was hospitalized. Mr. Binke eventually continued on to a Displaced Persons Camp in Feldafing, Germany and then to Bremen, where he and his father took a ship to New York City in 1950. From there Mr. Binke and his father moved to Detroit, Michigan. 1997-06-16T00:00:00Z