Ruth Lachs
I was born in Hamburg Germany on March 7th, 1936. My family lived on Heinze Strasse, in a Jewish neighbourhood and my father and uncle were partners in a textile business. Our lives changed dramatically after Kristallnacht in November 1938. People thought it could never happen in Germany, but when …
Ernst Israel Bornstein
Ernst was just 17-years-old when the Nazis arrived at their Polish home in March 1941 and arrested him and in front of his fearful mother he was beaten and marched off to a labour camp. Glancing up at the window of their home was his mother. He was not sure …
Chaim Ferster
My name is Chaim Ferster. I am 92 years old and I survived the horrors of the Holocaust. When the war broke out in Poland on Friday 1stSeptember 1939, I was 17 years old and lived with my family at home in a place called Sosnowiec near the German border. …