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Jack Kornhauser*

I was born in Wieliczka, Poland in 1924 to Leon (b.1898 d.1939) and Rivka (b.1899 d.1932).

The Holocaust began for me on September 14, 1939, when I was fifteen years old. On that day a Nazi SS officer arrived at my home, led by a Polish man of my village. They took my father and thirty-one other Jewish men away on a truck, telling them that they would work on a farm. When I went to look for them, I found that all of the men had been taken to the woods outside of the town and shot. My father had a bullet through his neck. I closed his eyes and heard him take his last breath, then buried him.

I tried hard to work to support my six younger brothers and sisters and stepmother. However, I was soon sent to a forced labor camp and endured the rest of the war years in seven forced labor and concentration camps – Prustkow, Plashow (twice), Zablocie, Mauthausen, Shtager, Guzen. I was near death many times.

I was liberated on May 5, 1945 at the age of twenty-one. I was six feet tall and weighed less than eight pounds. My brothers and sisters did not survive the war. I was never able to determine exactly how they died.

After the war I met and married Anya Kagan, another survivor. We have two sons and four grandchildren.

*Deceased on August 22, 1990.