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Max S. Levy
I was born in Wuppertal, Germany on June 18, 1921. My parents, Markus and Ella Levi, spent the last ten years in East Africa, now Tanzania. It was not a stable Germany they returned to. The revolution was over but the country politically unstable.
I started school in 1927 and almost instantly was confronted with antisemitism. In first or second grade I was called a dirty Jew by a classmate. It was an experience I would never forget, but learned to live with. School was never really “comfortable”, but my parents told me not to worry. My father had fought for Germany in East Africa and believed that our family had nothing to be concerned about. We were all Germans, and the German people would not tolerate Hitler. In 1934 the Catholic Party of Germany gave Hitler enough of a majority in the Reichstag (Parliament) to take over the country. This was followed by the Nurenberg Laws. I continued to attend school until 1936 until a wealthy relative of my father, who lived in N.Y., sent us an affidavit and we prepared to immigrate to the U.S.A.
My sister left in Germany in 1936, I followed in 1937, and my parents escaped in 1938 just before Kristallnacht. I continued my education and had many varied jobs to help support myself and my family.
I served in the U.S Army from 1942 to1946. I married my wife, Loretta, in 1946. We have two sons and now two granddaughters.
I opened a Dental Laboratory and in 1971, after the boys graduated from college, we then moved to Rockport, Mass. I sold my business and accepted a position teaching Dental Laboratory Technology at Boston University School of Dentistry.
In 1987, while visiting the National Holocaust Museum, I was able to trace 30 of my relatives who perished in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Dachau..