Student Tribune
Bear Witness as Local Holocaust Survivors Speak on Yom HaShoah
The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project invites you to join
us on April 27 as we mark Yom HaShoah. Come and hear three local survivors
tell their stories.
Sheila Gissin Weinbach was born in 1937 as WW2 was
spreading to Poland from Germany. As a youngster, she would hear stories from
her Romanian and Ukrainian born grandmothers about their experiences being
targeted for pogroms, attacks against Jews. As a teen, she taught
religious school to children born in Displaced Peoples Camps in Europe. It was
only natural that she should be attracted to a Holocaust survivor. She
married survivor Kurt Weinbach in 1960 and they had 50 years together as
husband and wife and best friends. Sheila accompanied her husband to all of his
talks to groups and now she tells his story.
Sheila Weinbach
When: Apr 27, 2022 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Sam Rind is a child survivor of the Holocaust. Born near
Lublin, Poland in 1937, Sam’s family was in various ghettos and forced
labor camps where Sam’s father was killed for the leather jacket on his
back. Sam also witnessed his younger brother being killed in his mother’s
arms by a Nazi guard. He and his mother eventually escaped to the Ukrainian
ghetto of Szmerinka to be with other relatives. Sam had to dress as a girl to
do this. At the end of the war, they returned to Poland to find relatives.
Finding none, they formed a little kibbutz with other Jewish survivors but
eventually wanted to leave because of continued anti-Semitism. They were not
permitted entry to the United States where Sam’s uncle lived so they went
to Bolivia to be with another one of Sam’s uncles. In 1960, Sam was able
to come to the U.S. to attend college in Buffalo. He became an optician
and is still in this profession today.
Sam Rind
When: Apr 27, 2022 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Lea Malek was born in Janoshalma, Hungary in 1939. Her
father died in a labor camp before her younger sister was born. Lea
was 5 years old when the rest of her family was loaded onto cattle
cars bound for Auschwitz. Along the way, the train suddenly stopped
and was split. A large land owner needed some slave laborers and the people in
Lea’s car were sent to work the farm instead of to Auschwitz. Lea would
not have survived if that hadn’t happened. Her train was part of the
failed "Blood for Goods" deal where Eichmann put 20,000 Jews
“on ice” for future trading by sending them to work camps in
Austria instead of to Auschwitz. Only 3 Jewish children – Lea,
her sister and one other girl - survived to return to their hometown in
Hungary. Lea witnessed the brutality of the Hungarian revolution in Budapest at
age 16, hoping to be able to come to the United States, but the U.S. had closed
its borders so she went to Israel in 1957 where she married and came to
the US in 1959. She retired from her well-known bakery,
"Malek's" a few years ago and has only recently begun to speak about
her experiences.
Lea Malek
When: Apr 27, 2022 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Attached Files:
survivor testimony spring 2022.pdf
Oriel, Jodi
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project
04/08/2022