Jackson-Bitton, Livia. Jackson Bitton, Livia. Bitton Jackson, Livia. Czechoslovakia birth. Samorin, Czechoslovakia. Netanya, Israel. Brooklyn College BA Holocaust survivor. City University of New York. She was sent with her parents, Laura and Markus Friedmann, brother, and aunt to the Nagymagyar Ghetto. Her father was sent to a forced labor camp, and the others were transported to the death camp at Auschwitz. In August , they were taken to Augsburg, Germany, to work at a factory assembly line.
After this, they were sent to a subsidiary camp of Dachau, where they were reunited with her brother. Near the end of the war, as the Allies advanced, the three family members were taken by trains further into Germany. Oral history interview with Ruth Berger Oral History Ruth Berger, born in in Mukacheve, Ukraine, discusses her childhood and her siblings; surviving several concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Brahnau; living in Prague, Czech Republic after the war; her immigration to the United States in ; settling in Cleveland, OH; her life in the US; the Holocaust survivor community and her religious activities; antisemitism in the US; how her parents were not Zionists; and her thoughts on Israel.
Oral history interview with Thomas Buergenthal Oral History Thomas Buergenthal, born May 11, in Lubochna, Czechoslovakia Slovakia , discusses his survival of the ghetto in Kielce, Poland; being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and his methods of survival; his immigration to the United States in ; attending Bethany College in Virginia, New York University, and Harvard; and teaching law at several universities; his Jewish identity and attending a Reform temple; losing his belief in God; and the possibility of another Holocaust event occurring.
Oral history interview with Mendel Chulew Oral History Medel Chulew, born in in Rymanow, Poland, discusses arriving in New York, NY in ; fleeing to Siberia with his family during the war; his two brothers; living in Kenosha, Wisconsin; getting into the furniture business; his first impressions on New York and living in Sunnyside; attending social events hosted by the HIAS; moving to Kenosha and feeling isolated; being involved in the Jewish community; his children; speaking to his brother in Yiddish; his religious observations; feeling sympathetic towards the civil rights movement; speaking in schools about Judaism; how his experiences in Siberia influenced his business practices; how he worked for the director of the displaced persons commission after the war; how marrying another survivor has affected his life; and his general thoughts on his Holocaust experience.
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They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!
What is life all about? See all Livia Bitton-Jackson's quotes ». Topics Mentioning This Author. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I Have Lived a Thousand Years 4. After this she and her mother were taken to a subsidiary camp of Dachau, in Germany, where she was reunited with her older brother Bubi, who was staying in the men's camp.
Her stay here was shortened due to the Allies advance and the three surviving members of the family were taken by trains further into Germany. On the way the guards deserted and many of the prisoners mistook this to be the liberation.
However, the guards returned and fired upon those who had left the train, and ordered the others back onto the carriages. During the rest of the journey, Bitton-Jackson was able to keep her brother with herself and her mother.
At one point, she spotted through the cracks in the carriage Red Cross trucks, and the soldiers informed them that the charity would be giving out food. The surviving inmates lined up close to the carriage entrance whereupon they were shot at by the SS.
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