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I was born in Shastaka, Poland in 1926 to Zysia Grunglod (d. 1943) and Faga (d. 1943).
My parents, two brothers and four sisters perished in the Holocaust. My cousin and I are the only survivors of a large extended family.
Early in the war, my family built an underground bunker in a field and hid there for two weeks until we were discovered.
I spent most of the war years in labor and concentration camps – Jenishav, Budgin, where his father was killed; Ostrovitz, Auschwitz (Birkenau and Buna); Oranienburg; and Flossenburg.
Of all the depravation I experienced, I can never forget the constant, devastating hunger, as a teenage boy, doing long hours of heavy physical labor.
I survived because, at the end of the war, the Americans were so close that the Germans were afraid to shoot us and instead ran. I don't know where my strength came from, except from fear.
After the war I married another survivor, Malka Frustenfield. We went to Israel in 1948 and came to the United States in 1960. We have two children, Abraham and Faye.
* deceased April 4, 2007
SAMUEL GRUNGOLD*