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Bluma and Berek Wurzel Our

Bluma and Berek Wurzel Our

Our mother Bluma Wurzel Urbas was born on May 2, 1926 in Radomsko, Poland. Her father was a ...

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The Second Generation are the children and grand-children of The Boys. Our parents have deputed to us the ...

Henry Abisch

Henry Abisch

My husband, Henry Abisch, was born on 25th December 1928 in Rachov, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia. He was taken with ...

Jack Aizenberg

Jack Aizenberg

Our father, grandfather and our hero, Jack Yankel Aizenberg, was born on 15th April 1928, in a small ...

Icek Alterman

Icek Alterman

Icek was born in Ozarow, Poland, in 1928, the middle of three children. When he was a small ...

Sidney Baker

Sidney Baker

Sidney Baker was born Shaul Bekierman on 20th October 1927 in Chmielnik, Poland. The son of Yekesil, a ...

Harry Balsam

Harry Balsam

Harry was born in 1929 in Gorlice, Poland. He was separated from his mother, sister and little brother ...

Michael Bandel

Michael Bandel

This square was made for my husband, Michael Bandel (Yechiel Mechel Tvi). He is shown together with his ...

Bulldogs Bank

Bulldogs Bank

This photo was taken in Bulldogs Bank in 1946. These six children were some of the youngest survivors ...

Mendel Beale

Mendel Beale

My grandpa, Mendel Beale, was born in December 1921 in a small village outside of Lodz, Poland. He ...

Roman Becher

Roman Becher

Roman was born in Lwow, Eastern Poland on 23 November 1929. Only his mother Sabina, aunts Lucy and ...

Salek and Sarolta Benedikt

Salek and Sarolta Benedikt

My idea for a quilt square was to have a fan of coloured pencils with a picture of ...

Felix Berger

Felix Berger

My father Yechiel Ophriam Fishel Berger (known later as Felix) was born on 10th October 1927 in Wloszczowa, ...

Wlodka Blit Robertson

Wlodka Blit Robertson

Our mother Wlodka Blit Robertson was in the Warsaw ghetto until 1943, just before the ghetto uprising, living ...

Mayer Bomsztyk

Mayer Bomsztyk

Mayer Bomsztyk was born on 28th December 1928 in Staszow, Poland. He was the youngest of 3 children ...

Zvi Brand

Zvi Brand

My father Zvi Brand was born in Ulutz, Poland, on 5th of August 1929. He was taken to ...

Peter Isaac Brandstein

Peter Isaac Brandstein

Isaac was originally Hungarian. He was born in the Carpathian Mountains and passed away in London. During the ...

Esther and Stan Brunstein

Esther and Stan Brunstein

The starting point for me was the map of Poland, the country of birth for both my parents ...

Adash Bulwa

Adash Bulwa

My father, Adash Bulwa, was born on 15th September 1926 in Poland in Piotrków-Trybunalski. In 1941 he was ...

Joseph Carver

Joseph Carver

The family chose Martin Gilbert’s book cover entitled ‘The Boys Triumph Over Adversity’ because Joseph himself, aged seventeen, ...

Sam Cooper

Sam Cooper

Sam Cooper, originally Szmul Kuczer (Kutscher), was born on 9th August 1931 in Hrubieszov, near Lublin in Poland, ...

Mayer Cornell

Mayer Cornell

Mayer Cornell (Majer Kochen) was born in March 1927 to Yehaskial and Chaja Rivka in Kielce Poland. Mayer ...

Jack Cygelman

Jack Cygelman

My father, Jack Cygelman was born on July 25th 1928 near Rhadom in Poland. In 1939 he was ...

Arieh Czeret

Arieh Czeret

Arieh was born on 7th September 1929 to Yuda and Klara in Bodzanów, which is in the east ...

Zvi Dagan

Zvi Dagan

My father Zvi Dagan was born on 15th August 1930, in Piotrokov, Poland. He was taken to Buchenwald, ...

Dovid Denderowicz

Dovid Denderowicz

This square was made by the family of the late Dovid Denderowicz, a young boy from Leopoldow, Poland ...

Kopel Dessau

Kopel Dessau

My Dad’s square is made from one of the cowboy shirts he would wear daily until he passed ...

Abe Dichter

Abe Dichter

My father Abraham Dichter, known as Abe, was born on March 27th 1930 in the small Polish village ...

Bernard Dreihorn

Bernard Dreihorn

Berek (Bernard) was born in Poland and passed away in Middlesex in February 1994. During WW2, he spent ...

Samuel Dresner

Samuel Dresner

My father Samuel Dresner was probably born on January 2nd 1928. As all of his papers were destroyed, ...

Menek & Gela Drucker

Menek & Gela Drucker

Our father Menek Drucker was born on 13th February 1916 in Rzeszow, Poland. In September 1940 he was ...

Benek Englard

Benek Englard

I was born on 7th of August 1928 in Krakow, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland, we continued ...

Frank Farkas

Frank Farkas

Ephraim Farkas was born in Czechoslovakia in a small village called Horincova on 1st October 1929. His family ...

Stanley Faull

Stanley Faull

Stanley (Salek Falinower) was born in Warsaw, Poland on 29th October 1929, to a loving, middle class family ...

Chaim Ferster

Chaim Ferster

Dad was born on July 18th 1922 in Sosnowiec, Poland. He was the only son; he had 3 ...

Eric Fisch

Eric Fisch

Eric Fisch Eric born on 15th Dec 1925 in Bodzentin in Poland and went to Auschwitz as well ...

Harry Fox

Harry Fox

Chaim Usher Fuks also known as HARRY FOX. Harry was born on 15 July 1930 in Tuszyn, a ...

Johnny Fox

Johnny Fox

John Fox was born Jonah Fuks in Tuczyn, Poland in 1927. He was the oldest of three children ...

Sam Freiman

Sam Freiman

The pictures in the square represent my father Solomon “Dundela” Freiman, who was born in Jeziorna, Poland on ...

Moniek Frenkel

Moniek Frenkel

My father, Moniek Frenkel, was born on 24th November 1926 in Lodz in Poland. In 1941 he was ...

Moric Friedman

Moric Friedman

My father Moric Friedman was born in Velkey Berezeni on 25th April 1931, which at the time was ...

Sam Gardner

Sam Gardner

When Julia rang me and told me about the memorial quilt it was quite late in the evening ...

Paul Gast

Paul Gast

Paul Gast (Gastfreund) was born on November 16th 1929 in Lodz, Poland. He was ten years old when ...

Leo Geddy

Leo Geddy

We thought about what would represent my Dad best in our square for the quilt and here are ...

Jacob Glicksohn

Jacob Glicksohn

Jacob Glicksohn (Glikson) was born in Czestochowa, Poland, on May 8th 1927. He used to say that because ...

Moniek Goldberg

Moniek Goldberg

Moniek was born May 5th 1928. Between 1942 and 1945 he was in the following camps: Shitzke/Szyczki, Kaushina/Kruszyn, ...

Sam Goldberg

Sam Goldberg

Sam (Szmul) Goldberg was born in Bendzin, Poland, on December 25th 1929 to Zvi and Ita Goldberg. He ...

Jan Goldberger

Jan Goldberger

Our father Jan Goldberger was born in Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1927. He was liberated from Theresienstadt in ...

Sam Gontarz

Sam Gontarz

I, Szmul (Sam) Gontarz, was born in Lodz, Poland on 6th July 1929. My parents were Ruchela and ...

Monty Graham

Monty Graham

Monty Graham – father to Kelvin, Lorraine, David and Helen – was born Motek Grzmot (13.09.1926 -18.06.2009) to ...

Henry Green

Henry Green

Henry was born in Strzemiesszyce, Poland, on 15th July 1928. After surviving the camps, he came to Windermere, ...

Victor Greenberg

Victor Greenberg

This square has been put together by Victor Greenberg and his family. It represents the family that he, ...

Sylvia Gruner-Cohen

Sylvia Gruner-Cohen

Mum was born in Vienna. She used to juggle as a child. I am not sure at what ...

Hugo Gryn

Hugo Gryn

This image was from a photograph of Hugo, our father, as a boy, with his younger brother Gaby, ...

Johnny Gutman

Johnny Gutman

Our darling father, Wolf (Johnny) Gutman was born in Lodz, Poland, on 23rd October 1927. He suffered in ...

Pinchas Gutter

Pinchas Gutter

Pinchas Gutter was born in the early 1930’s in Lodz, Poland. The family then moved to Warsaw where ...

Roman Halter

Roman Halter

Roman Halter was born in 1927 in the little town of Chodecz, Poland, the youngest of seven children ...

Roman Halter

Roman Halter

Roman Halter was born in 1927 in the little town of Chodecz, Poland, the youngest of seven children ...

Jack Hecht

Jack Hecht

Jack (Jacob) Hecht (b. May 14, 1929) has a strong life force and gusto even now in his ...

Martin Hecht

Martin Hecht

I was born in Ruscova, Romania in 1931. During the spring of 1944, together with my parents and ...

Ben Helfgott

Ben Helfgott

I have been absorbed with many charitable activities for many years but none of them have been more ...

Abraham Herman

Abraham Herman

Abraham Herman was born on 16th February 1931 in Mukačevo in Transcarpathian Ruthenia, at the time, part of ...

David Herman

David Herman

David was born on 6th September 1926 in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia. In April 1944 he was transported to Auschwitz, ...

David Herszkowicz

David Herszkowicz

Our uncle, David Herszkowicz, was born on 9th of March 1928 in Jendrzejow, Poland. The whole family was ...

Jerzy Herzberg

Jerzy Herzberg

Jerzy was born in Poznań, Poland. He was incarcerated in the Lodz ghetto and then sent to Auschwitz ...

Joseph Himmelstein

Joseph Himmelstein

Joe Stone (Joseph Himmelstein) was born on 1st January 1931 in Poland. After going through several camps, Joe ...

David Hirschfeld

David Hirschfeld

I was born in 20th August 1929 in Bruśnik, Poland and grew up in Gorlice. In February 1941 ...

Moniek Hirschfeld

Moniek Hirschfeld

Moniek was born on 28th March 1927 in Bruśnik, Poland and grew up in Gorlice. In Feb 1941 ...

Emeric Hitter

Emeric Hitter

I was born in 1927 on March 13th in a place called Oradea. At that time it was ...

Martin Hoffman

Martin Hoffman

Martin Joseph Hoffman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 15th November, 1929. His Father’s name was Herman and ...

Samuel Holckiener

Samuel Holckiener

Samuel Hilton (Holckiener) was born September 23 1929 in Warsaw, Poland, so the square has a background map ...

Alfred Huberman

Alfred Huberman

My father, Abram Huberman (Alfred) was born in Pulawy, Poland, in December. He was taken to the ghetto ...

Zdenka Husserl

Zdenka Husserl

I, Zdenka Husserl (born Zdenka Husserlova), was born on 6th February 1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and my parents ...

Solly Irving

Solly Irving

Our father, Solly Irving lost his parents Yisroel Yitzchak and Chana Necha and four sisters Rivka, Leah, Hindel ...

Minia Jay

Minia Jay

My mother Minia Jay was born on 1.5.1925 in Warta, Poland. In 1940 she was taken to the ...

Jack Kagan

Jack Kagan

Jack was born on 7 April 1929 and grew up in the town of Novogrudok, Belarus. The son ...

Fischel Kampel

Fischel Kampel

My father was born on 8th August 1929 in Bodzentin, Poland. In 1942, he and his parents were ...

Henry and Sala Kaye

Henry and Sala Kaye

My father Henry (Heniek) was born in Konin, Poland, perhaps in 1928. In 1941 he was taken to ...

Kopel Kendall

Kopel Kendall

Kopel Kendall, formerly Kandelcukier, was born on the 7th March 1928 in a little town called Bialobzgi in ...

Alf Kirszberg

Alf Kirszberg

Alf (Abraham) was born in Magnuszew, Poland, on the 7th May 1928 (according to official documents). The picture ...

Kurt Klappholz

Kurt Klappholz

Kurt Klappholz was born in Bielsko, Poland, on 17th June 1927. The only child of Moritz and Sonia ...

Chaim Kohn

Chaim Kohn

Chaim was born on 10th October 1928 in Zmigrod-Nowy near Krakow in Poland. His parents were Simcha and ...

Hendel Kohn

Hendel Kohn

My father Hendel (Henry) Kohn was born in Geledg, near to Bwedzin, Poland, on 1st December 1921. He ...

David Kutner

David Kutner

David Kutner, survivor, was all about love. His great love for the sun in both summer and winter, ...

Sam Laskier

Sam Laskier

My father, known then as Szmulek or Shmuel Laskier, was born in Warsaw in August 1927. His family ...

Peretz Lev

Peretz Lev

Peretz Lev (Levkovich) was born on September 9th 1927 in a small village called Pavienze in Poland. At ...

Rachel Levy

Rachel Levy

My mother was born on 30th April 1930 in a tiny village called Bhutz in the Carpathian Mountains ...

Chaim Lewkowicz

Chaim Lewkowicz

Born on 21st February 1926, the youngest of eleven children, to Yaakow and Chava, Charlie (then known as ...

Traute Lossau

Traute Lossau

Our mother, Traute Lossau, was born on the 19th January 1933. She was the second eldest of five ...

Moishe Malenicky

Moishe Malenicky

Moishe Malenicky was born in Piotrokow in Poland. His family were bakers and he lived with his mother ...

Leon Manders

Leon Manders

My dad was a very charismatic man. He left a great impression on everyone he met. He was ...

Jack Melcer

Jack Melcer

I was born in 1930 in Warsaw. I had a sister and 3 brothers. I lived in the ...

Steve Mermelstein

Steve Mermelstein

Our father, Steven “Simi” Mermelstein z”l was born on December 9, 1929 in Zdenyov, Czechoslovakia. The situation in ...

Sala Hochszpiegel & Benny Newton

Sala Hochszpiegel & Benny Newton

My parents were born in Poland in 1929, my mother Sala in Lodz and my father Benny in ...

Moshe Nurtman

Moshe Nurtman

The Nurtman Family square features a rainbow which represents the life and hope that was born from so ...

Bob Obuchowski

Bob Obuchowski

Bob Obuchowski My dad, Bob Obuchowski, was born in Ozorkow, Poland in 1928. He survived the Holocaust, living ...

Harry Olmer

Harry Olmer

Harry Olmer Harry was born Chaim Olmer on 15th November 1927 in Sosnowiec, Poland.The face in the middle ...

Eve Oppenheimer

Eve Oppenheimer

I was born on 23 June 1936 in London. My parents and my brothers were born in Germany ...

Paul Oppenheimer

Paul Oppenheimer

Paul Oppenheimer was born in Berlin in 1928 into a family of assimilated German Jews. His father worked ...

Salek Orenstein

Salek Orenstein

Salek (known at home as Yisocher Mendel) was one of four children born to Herschel and Nacha Ella ...

Shlomoh Reuven Orzech

Shlomoh Reuven Orzech

Our father Shlomoh Reuven (Rubin) Orzech was born in 1924 in Kelcz, Poland. He was taken to Bergen ...

Yechezkel Orzech

Yechezkel Orzech

The story of the square is about two brothers, Reuven and Yechezkel Orzech, born in Kielce, Poland, to ...

Jerry Parker

Jerry Parker

Dad’s real name was (Jurek) Jojchene Przendza and he was born in Dobczyce in 1926 to Gitel and ...

Steven Pearl

Steven Pearl

Steven Pearl The making of Steven Pearl’s quilt square – I have to say, it has been tougher ...

Josef Perl

Josef Perl

JOSEF PERL was born on 27 April 1930, in Velicky Bockov, Czechoslovakia, the only son of Frieda and ...

David Peterson

David Peterson

Born David Pietrkowski on 17th October 1927, David lost all his family in the ghettos and concentration camps ...

Nathan Pivnik

Nathan Pivnik

Nathan (Nat, as he was known) was one of seven children born to Fajgla and Leib in Bedzin, ...

Sam Pivnik

Sam Pivnik

Sam was born on 1st September 1926 in south west Poland in Bedzin, near the German border. In ...

Baruch Pollak

Baruch Pollak

Baruch Pollak (Vojtech bela) was born in Miskolc, Hungary. His father was a tailor, his mother was a ...

Lili Pohlmann

Lili Pohlmann

Lili was born in Lvov on March 29, 1930 and lived in Krakow, Poland with her parents Cecylia ...

Issaak Pomeranc

Issaak Pomeranc

Our father Issaak Pomeranc was born on 2nd March 1928 in Dzialoszyce, Poland. In 1941, aged 13, he ...

Arthur Poznanski

Arthur Poznanski

Our father Arthur Poznanski was born on November 7 1927 in Praszka, Poland. He worked in the Hortensia ...

Michael Preston

Michael Preston

I was born on 30th June 1930 in Lodz, Poland. My parents and my sister lived in the ...

Mendel Preter

Mendel Preter

I was born on October 7th 1927 in a small village called Czermnika near Lublin in Poland. Towards ...

Alexander Riseman and Yitzhak Rajsman

Alexander Riseman and Yitzhak Rajsman

Alexander and Yitzhak Rajsman were born in Lodz, Poland. They had a sister called Rochel who died in ...

Joe Rents

Joe Rents

Born Jozek Ratziek in September 1929, Joe lived in Rzeszow, a town near Krakow with his family. They ...

Leo Robeson

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Leo Robeson Laib Rozensztrauch was born on 27th February 1924 in Lodz, Poland, into a close knit family ...

Leon Rosenberg

Leon Rosenberg

Our dear father Leon Rosenberg was born just outside of Ostrowiec, Poland, on 15th May 1927. In 1940, ...

Bela Rosenthal

Bela Rosenthal

I was born in Berlin on August 1942 and was deported to Theresienstadt in June 1943 where I ...

Roma Rozenman

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My mother, Roma Barnes (maiden name Rozenman), was born March 15, 1930 in Demblin, Poland. This square includes ...

Jack Rubinfeld

Jack Rubinfeld

My husband Jack was born on December 3, 1928 in Bircza, Poland. In Spring 1942 he was taken ...

Yisroel Rudzinski

Yisroel Rudzinski

Our beloved Zeide was absolutely adored by each and every one of his grandchildren. His care and concern ...

Genia Schwarzmann

Genia Schwarzmann

Our mother was born on 23 January 1934 in Radom, Poland. She was smuggled out of the Radom ...

Jack Schwimmer

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Our father Jack Zisha Schwimmer was born on 5 April 1928 in Stróżowska, a small village about 2 ...

Josh Segal

Josh Segal

Born Jehoszua Cygelfarb in Lodz on 24 December 1926 to Avrom Kalman, a self-employed painter and decorator and ...

Charles Shane

Charles Shane

My husband, Charles Shane, Chaim Szlamberg, was born on 21st Dec 1927 in Lodz Poland. He came from ...

Zigi Shipper

Zigi Shipper

Zigi was born on 18th January 1930 in Lodz, Poland. When he was five years old his parents ...

David Sommer

David Sommer

David was born in Tuerk, Poland in May 1928. He came from an orthodox family. He was taken ...

Jona Spiegel

Jona Spiegel

I was born in Vienna, Austria, on the 18th December 1941. My mother’s name was Elsa and at ...

Harry Spiro

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Harry Spiro was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski Poland on 21st November 1929. Before the war he lived with ...

Emil Stein

Emil Stein

Emil Stein Our square represents the life & family of our father, Emil (Judah) Stein (nee Shtajnbrecher), who ...

Icky Stein

Icky Stein

Icky was born on 2 December 1924 in Bedzin, Poland. He was sent to Auschwitz, Monowitz, Buchenwald and ...

Michael Stern

Michael Stern

Moszek and Fajga Szternfeld lived in Zgierz and had four sons: Bolek (b1924), Mietek, my dad (b1927), Jakob ...

Ernest Sunog

Ernest Sunog

Ernest Sunog was born in Munkacs on August 15, 1928. He was taken to the concentration camp at ...

Bela Szwaicer-Kirzner

Bela Szwaicer-Kirzner

I was born March 15, 1929 in Lodz, Poland. I was interned in 4 concentration camps. The first ...

Lipa Tepper

Lipa Tepper

My father was Lipa Tepper. He was born on Nov 30 1926 in Dukla in the south of ...

Mala Tribich (née Helfgott)

Mala Tribich (née Helfgott)

I was born on 24th September 1930 in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, the middle child of three, with an ...

Rose Turek

Rose Turek

My mother, Rose Regina Turek was born in Poland and was taken at a young age to Theresienstadt ...

Harry Wajchandler and Howard Chandler

Harry Wajchandler and Howard Chandler

Harry (Herschel) Wajchendler (1926) and his younger brother Howard Chandler (Chaim Wajchendler, 1928) were born in Wierzbnik, Poland ...

Alec Ward

Alec Ward

Alec was born (Abram Warszaw) in Parysow near Lublin, Poland, and lived mainly in the village of Magnuszew ...

Jerry Wegier

Jerry Wegier

Jerry’s journey is represented by four playing cards. Follow the cord to see the order of the journey ...

Avram Weinstock

Avram Weinstock

Avram or as he is known to all his friends – Romek was born on 5th October 1927 ...

Weir Courtney

Weir Courtney

I chose to make this square for everyone at Weir Courtney, Lingfield, Surrey, as a token of my ...

Ivor Wieder

Ivor Wieder

Our father Ivor Wieder was born on April 6th 1931 in Barsna, Romania. In 1944 he was taken ...

David Wiernik

David Wiernik

David was 15 and living in the town of Lodz in Poland when the war started. Hearing the ...

Krulik Wilder

Krulik Wilder

Israel (Krulik) Wilder was born on 3rd December 1928, in the small town of Piotrokow in Poland. His ...

Salomon Rafael Winogrodzki

Salomon Rafael Winogrodzki

Salomon Rafael Winogrodzki was known as Schlamek, Gary and Ray to friends and family, but I knew him ...

Alf Wohlreich

Alf Wohlreich

My mum and dad, Gertie and Alf Wohlreich, were both victims of the Nazi camps, and the slave ...

Hanka Ziegler Smith

Hanka Ziegler Smith

My name is Hanka Ziegler Smith and I feel very blessed to leave a legacy of my life ...

Mick Zwirek

Mick Zwirek

Our father Abraham ‘Mick’ Zwirek was born on 18 December 1925 in Plock, Poland. He was in two ...

Aron Zylberszac

Aron Zylberszac

Aron Zylberszac Aron was born on 10th August 1927, the youngest child to Faiga and Gavriel, who was ...