Alex (Chaim Yitzchak) Folkman

Alex Folkman was born Chaim Yitzhak Rothenberg on June 10, 1922, to a Chassidic family in the small town of Tylicz, Poland. Nestled at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, Tylicz was in southern Poland, near the Czechoslovakian border...

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Laszlo (Les) Mittelman

Laszlo Mittelman was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1919. His parents were relatively poor, but they managed to put food on the table for their four children and once a year, for Passover, buy them each a new pair...

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Yechiel (Chil) Grynszpan

Yechiel (Chil) Grynszpan was born on July 6, 1916, in Sosnowica, Poland, to Sura Bajla and Moszko Grynszpan. He grew up with three sisters, Heny, Mindel, and Hinda, along with two brothers, Ajzyk and Abraham. Chil worked alongside his...

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Moshe Berkowitz

Moshe Berkowitz was born in 1898 in the small Jewish town of Woronowa, Poland, now in modern-day Belarus. Residents of Woronowa shared a strong religious faith and admiration of God’s teachings; Jewish rituals were deeply woven into their society....

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Luba Wrobel Goldberg

Luba Wrobel Goldberg was born on May 6, 1923, and raised in the shtetl of Ciechanowiec, Poland. She attended the Zionist Tarbut school and spoke fluent Hebrew. However, Luba’s schooling was interrupted after her father’s death when she moved...

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