Howard Frank Wolfe was born in Portland, Oregon on September 3, 1919, the son of Simon and Carolyn (Solomon) Wolfe. He had an older brother, Alfred. Howard graduated from Lincoln High School and Reed College. He served as an army medic in the Second World War in both European and Pacific campaigns. He survived the …
Read MoreLottie Feuchtbaum Waxman was born October 3, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. Her father was Solomon Feuchtbaum. Her mother was Josephine Siner. Both families were from Galitzia, Austria. Lotte had one brother, Johnny. Both her mother’s and father’s family were observant Jews. Her parents spoke German, Polish and Yiddish. Lottie’s father was a photographer and had …
Read MoreKaren Irwin (nee Evelyn Aronson) was born on July 4, 1924 in Halberstadt Germany to Franziska (Emanuel) and Félix Aronson. Franziska was a chemist, born in Hedemuenden and grew up in Kassel. Félix was a businessman whose family came from Konigsberg, Prussia and grew up in Paris. Karen had no siblings. Karen’s parents moved several times …
Read MoreRochella “Chella” Velt was born in The Hague, Holland on May 15, 1928. When she was five years old, her mother died, so her father was left to take care of Chella and her older sister, Flora. Her father was concerned that they weren’t going to get the education they needed, so he decided to send …
Read MoreMenachem “Manny” Taiblum was born on July 22, 1928 in Warsaw, Poland to an Orthodox family. In 1940, Manny and his family were forced to move to the Warsaw Ghetto along with nearly 500,000 other Polish Jews. In 1942, on the eve of his 14th birthday, Manny snuck out of the ghetto to find food for …
Read MoreChedwah Stein (nee Van Tijn) was born in Amsterdam, Holland. Her mother was Francesca Cohn and her father was Jacques van Tijn. She had one brother, David. Jacques was a geologist, and the family traveled a lot for his work, so she lived in South Africa, Mexico and Uganda as a child. In 1940, after …
Read MoreGeorge Boris Sidline was born October 22, 1934 in Kobe, Japan to Boris and Fania Sidline. He had one brother, Alexander. Both boys attended primary and secondary school in Japan before the family immigrated to Canada in 1954. George’s father first immigrated to Japan in 1918. He had fought during the Bolshevik Revolution in Vladivostok, …
Read MoreLaslow Lester Schonstal was born in Budapest, Hungary. His childhood was a happy one, and his family lived a comfortable life. It wasn’t until 1944, when the Germans invaded Hungary to be closer to the Russian front that life became increasingly more difficult. He and his family were moved to an apartment building marked with …
Read MoreEdith Schonstal was born in 1937 in Budapest, Hungary. Her family endured great difficulty during the Second World War, but counted themselves fortunate until 1944 when they were moved and interred in the Budapest Ghetto. While this was a great upheaval, and life became gradually more difficult, they were all able to survive the war. …
Read MoreMargaret Muller Salomon was born in Dusseldorf, Germany on May 5, 1910. Her parents were Simon and Flora Muller, and were both born in 1878. Margaret had two brothers: Hans and Walter. Simon owned a men’s store with 30 to 50 employees. During World War I, Flora ran the store while Simon was serving in …
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