Slave Labor and Typhus at Dachau — A Holocaust Survivor’s Story:Part IV

Jack Welner was transported to a satellite work camp of Dachau in August of 1944. Andrzej Strzelecki writes in The Deportation of Jews from the Lodz ghetto to KL Auschwitz and Their Extermination, State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2006:

“According to extant

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The Last Time I Saw My Mother — A Holocaust Survivor’s Story, Part III

Nazi official Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in the first half of June, 1944. The Soviet Union had begun their successful offensive along the easstern front. The Americans had landed at Normandy. Jack Welner describes his

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Starvation Rations — A Holocaust Survivor’s Story: Part II

The angel of death in Lodz Ghetto was hunger. The results of enduring, unceasing hunger became simply catastrophic for the health condition of the ghetto population and produced, both absolutely and relatively, the largest number of victims. 11,273 people died

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A Holocaust Survivor’s Story: Part I

On July 16, 1937 — 70 years ago today — the Buchenwald concentration camp opened in Germany. Every Holocaust survivor has his or her own story. When Jack Welner speaks to people about his life during World War II, he

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