Yitzhak Weisman

Yitzhak (Isaac) Weisman was born in 1915 in Luboml (Ludmir), then part of Poland (today Lyuboml, Ukraine), into one of the town’s longstanding Jewish families. His parents were Shmuel David and Batia Weisman. Batia died of typhus fever in...

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Frieda Feit

Frieda Feit was born on August 5, 1922, the youngest child of David and Chaya Slucki. She grew up in Lida, then part of Poland, with her three older sisters, Rachel, Szyfra, and Rasza Lea. Little information survives about...

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Abram Zyzemski (Alfred Zenner) 

Abram Zyzemski (later known as Alfred Zenner) was born on August 5, 1927, in Lida, Poland (now Belarus), to Mordechai, a cobbler, and Tzirel Magulska. He was the youngest of five with older siblings Gedalia, Sholom, Shayna and Chaika. Abram was especially cherished by his family, including his...

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Julius (Yehuda) Rytman

Julius (Yehuda) Rytman was born on July 13, 1925, in the village of Dokshitz-Parafianov in Belarus. He lived with his parents, Eli and Itka, along with four younger siblings. His parents ran a small inn, and his father and...

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Antal Oppenheimer

Antal (born as Adolf) Oppenheimer was born on January 17, 1910, in Budapest, Hungary. His early childhood was spent in the vicinity of the Franz Joseph Castle around the time of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The Oppenheimer...

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