Survivors of Auschwitz

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2022, marks the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Listen to the testimonies of the Holocaust Survivor speakers at the MOT who were at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Shoah.

AMROM DEUTSCH Born: August 8, 1925 Birthplace: Sighet, Romania Holocaust experience: Forced into ghetto; transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; slave labor at Buna; death march to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Renee Firestone Born: April 13, 1924 Birthplace: Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia Holocaust experience: Ungvar ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, slave labor in Liebau

Bill Harvey Born: May 20, 1924 Birthplace: Berehova, Czech Republic (Now part of Ukraine) Holocaust experience: Berehova ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau,Buchenwald concentration camps

David Lenga Born: December 3, 1927 Birthplace: Lodz, Poland Holocaust experience: Strykow and Lodz ghettos, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau concentration camps, Kaufering slave labor camp.

ELLA MANDEL Born: December 2, 1926 Birthplace: Zduńska Wola, Poland Holocaust experience: Lodz ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

ELISABETH MANN Born: December 31, 1925 Birthplace: Kecskemet, Hungary Holocaust experience: Kecskemet ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen concentration camps

MICHAEL "MIKI" POPIK Z"L Born: May 11, 1931 Died: June 29, 2019 Birthplace: Levice, Czechoslovakia Holocaust experience: Levice ghetto; Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps; death march

MORRIS PRICE Born: April 1, 1927 Birthplace: Wolbrom, Poland Holocaust experience: Prokoczim labor camp in Poland, Krakow ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau concentration camps

ALBERT ROSA Born: January 25, 1925 Birthplace: Salonika, Greece Holocaust experience: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau concentration camps

MARTHA STERNBACH Born: November 17, 1926 Birthplace: Megyaszó, Hungary Holocaust experience: Uhel ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; slave labor.

GLORIA UNGAR Born: September 9, 1930 Birthplace: Krosno, Poland Holocaust experience: Family fled to Slovakia; deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen concentration camps

ERNEST WEISS Born: April 27, 1927 Birthplace: Munkacz, Czechoslovakia, then Hungary Holocaust experience: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, including slave labor in destroyed Warsaw ghetto, death march, Dachau, Muldorf concentration camps.