Oral history interview with Lisa Dawidowicz Murik Oral history interview with Eddie WillnerĮddie Willner, born on Augin Germany, describes how his father had felt that his family would be safe because he had fought in the German Army in World War I being separated from his parents and sent on a train to Brussels, Belgium, where a Jewish refugee organization placed him with a Dutch family his parents’ move to Belgium in 1939 and seeing them on weekends until the war broke out in May 1940 the arrest of his father and his deportation to an internment camp in France remaining with his mother and tracking down his father in the Pyrenees Mountains living in the house of a French priest getting caught with false identification cards with his family and being sent to Drancy his deportation out of France and toward the east on Septemarriving in Auschwitz, where his mother was immediately gassed while he stayed with his father his transfer to a work camp in Lazy, Poland, where he worked on reconstructing bombed-out railroads enduring harsh conditions, especially in the winter months losing his religious faith after the war returning from his work detail one day to discover that his father had been selected for the gas chamber during the day the bombing of the train on which he was being transported to Buchenwald, escaping, and being liberated by American troops staying in the Frankfurt displaced persons camp and then searching for his family in Brussels after the war and immigrating to the United States in December 1947. Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.57.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0750Įzra Sherman, born on Februin the small town of Mlynov, Poland (Mlynove, Ukraine), describes his family the death of his mother before the war his father’s role as the kosher butcher in the community his town coming under Soviet control in 1939 and the almost immediate scarcity of food and other necessities his father’s efforts to fill this gap by continuing to find goods and services for people, which landed him into trouble with the new Soviet authorities being forced to move to Dubno, Ukraine, where he saw mass executions of Jews in a nearby cemetery going to live with his grandmother in Mlynov after the Germans invaded the creation of a ghetto in their neighborhood slipping past the ghetto fence to work at a farm being helped by Polish, Ukrainian and Czech gentiles the liquidation of the ghetto in 1942 hiding in a nearby shed with another child seeking shelter in the home of an old woman, who denounced them to a Ukrainian policeman having is boots and jacket taken and being ordered back to the village surviving on his own in the forest and with the help of local farmers living with a Czech farmer for a year and being liberated by the Soviet Army being treated well by the Soviet troops helping to liberate Auschwitz taking part in the battle of Berlin, but prevented from fighting returning to Ukraine with the Soviet unit and finding his brother going with his brother to Palestine, passing through Poland and a displaced persons camp in west Germany being recruited into the Palmach in 1947 to fight for independence also taking part in the 1967 war immigrating to the United states in 1974 with his wife and three children and settling in Philadelphia, PA.

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