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Now at the Chula Vista Public Library REMEMBER US THE HOLOCAUSTRUTH
MEET THE SURVIVORS
MARK and K St. rd owned Economy Furniture on 3Ave and eventually rd store on 3Mark was the owner of a grocery hard, love religion and love family. the lessons learned were to work much
about what happened but told me that his family didn’t talk an eye in Auschwitz. His son, Ed, but eventually was found. He lost Mark Fishauf escaped Auschwitz
LILLY HECHT even today. Humor is what keeps Lilly going Nazis forgot to pay the gas bill. day. Lilly’s mom thought that the that the gas wasn’t functioning that chamber in Auschwitz.
It turned out her mom were sent to the gas a gift for sure. Once day Lilly and separated from her mom. This was has 3 daughters. Lilly was never Beautiful Lilly is 96 years old.
She
URSULA unrecognizable. time after liberation but she was Ursula did see her mom one last determination learned ballet. Ursula took the shoes and with ballet shoes but didn’t want them.
Another child in the home was given and sexually abused. children’s home but was physically Ursula behind. She remained in a and the Nazis took her mom but left standing on a platform
with her mom sent to Brussels. Ursula remembers Germany. She and her mother were Ursula Israelski was born in Berlin,
BELA survived. they would not have claimed being Jewish, Buchenwald. Had they Jews and were sent to captured as soldiers, not Hungary. They were that were sent to soldiers from Romania
holocaust. They were that survived the Bela and Daniel Marks You are looking at twins, MARK
KURT SAX Southbay of San Diego. California. This paradise was the who told him to come to “Paradise” insurance business. It was a friend newspapers and then learned the Anderson, South
Carolina. He sold American family, he sailed to Northern Italy and with the help of an flee his homeland. He went to Austria. He knew then that he had to Nazis invaded his hometown
in Kurt Sax was 16 years old when the
RUTH SAX Holocaust will never be tolerated. organizations reminding them that another to speaking to students, communities and and friend, Kurt Sax. She dedicated herself Ruth married
her childhood distant cousin •they could not be used. She streaked her bullets with sand so that she was working in a factory making bullets. Oederan, a working camp. At the age
of 16 , they were sent to death camp, was a miracle that while on a transport to a Theresienstadt followed by Auschwitz. It By the age of 13 she was sent to everything and anything
they wanted (1939). when the Nazis invaded her home taking Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax was 10 years old •
PAUL The Southbay. to San Diego, he is remembered in Sweetwater. Although Paul moved and Paul had an egg ranch in His brother Jack, his mom Fanny in Auschwitz as well. brother was
captured and was killed was sent to Auschwitz. His older arrested during Kristalnacht and later hiding. At the age of 7 his father was Paul and his two brothers were in SCHAUDER
SOLOMÓN 57,000 students in Mexico. This book was distributed to . HistoriaesZeideMientitled He wrote a children’s book was sick with Typhus. Just after liberation Solomón sent to Auschwitz.
outside the ghetto. He was were gathered and killed Lodz was now a ghetto. Jews town of Solomón’sIn 1939
RENEE HABER VOGEL had her tattoo removed. She survived Auschwitz. Renee blessed that we can include her. about her experiences. We are Renee Haber Vogel will not talk
SID community. Vista, raised a family and served his Together they came to the Chula . FridaMexico where he met his wife, He went to Seattle and went to Dachau and liberated in May of
1945. tattooed. He was later transferred to went to Auschwitz where he was family at the age of 15 and eventually temple being burned. He lost his Poland where he witnessed the great
This kind and gentle soul came from and Naples St in Chula Vista. rd 3Sid Wapner owned Sid’s Yardage on
MAX WEINSTOCK to show his support. and he went to Israel numerous times Dyanfriend was Moshe outstanding Jewish leaders throughout the state. His dear He applied his life lessons to
become one of the most most was killed by the Nazis, and the suffering of his sister Natalie. He was never able to recover from the loss of his mother who able to help him and eventually
was able to settle in the States. Tijuana and got sick with Malaria. A doctor in Pasadena was genius eventually learning the furniture business. He settled in very little pay but
was able to survive. Max was a business Mexico at the age of 17. He was an extremely hard worker with was not allowed to settle in the United States so he went to Max knew at a young
age that he needed to leave Poland. He
ONA YUFE GREW UP IN NEW JERSEY. WHILE WALKING TO his mother in Germany and was in the Nazi Youth. parent’s divorce. Jack lived with his father while Oskar joined Jack and his twin
brother were separated because of their SCHOOL SHE WAS CALLED A “DIRTY JEW.”
MORE THAN JUST AN EXHIBIT library dedicated to the Holocaust survivors of the South Bay. With extra funds, it is my hope to have a lasting memorial on the deck of the Chula Vista •exhibit
and make way for our Firemen Centennial Exhibit. There will be a final gathering with Holocaust survivors in December as we will close this •This will be posted on our website and
Chula Vista community bulletins. Each month there will be an activity from speakers to art projects open to the community. •them a tour and answer questions. buses bringing students
to the exhibit. I personally will be there to greet the schools, give $5,000.00 will be donated on Wednesday to the Chula Vista Elementary School district for •museum exhibit and the
programs. Funds were raised with a Mayor’s brunch and donations from those believing in this •Supervisor Greg Cox.-CountyWe received 2 grants, the city of Chula Vista Arts and Enhancement
and San Diego •
MAYOR MARY SALAS BRUNCH OPENING EVENT FOR RUTH: REMEMBER US THE HOLOCAUST, JANUARY 12, 2020
HENENI: HERE WE ARE.
TOUR WITH HECHTLILLY
MEET THE TEAM COMMITTEE FOR BEGUNMENDY, SANDRA SCHELLER, PATRICIA HUFFMAN AND RABBI ORGOVANBACK ROW: HARRY BEGUNMUSSIEFIRST ROW: ADRIANNA HERNANDEZ, MAYOR MARY SALAS, AND RUTH