Ace Strip / Asriel Stripounsky (M / Belgium, 1936), Holocaust survivor
Ace Strip / Asriel Stripounsky (M / Belgium, 1936), Holocaust survivor
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- KEYWORDS : <Belgium> <Refugees> <France> <United States>
Biography
Asriel Stripounsky was born April 13, 1936 in Antwerp, Belgium. When Germany invaded Belgium in 1940, the family fled to France and from there to Spain and Portugal, arriving in the United States in 1941. After the war the family adopted their cousins, who after being turned back at the French border, had lost their parents in the Holocaust and survived in hiding in Belgium.
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Joseph Strip (1923-2014) was born Joseph Stripounsky in Antwerp to Menachem (Nathan, b. 1893 in Podbrodzie, now Pabradė, Lithuania) and Rosa Ester Mac (b. 1894). His stepmother was Regina Stripounsky (b. Regina Gunzig in 1898 in Krakow) and his younger brother was named Asriel (Ace, b. 1936). His family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of Menachem’s former employer in 1941. The family settled in Newark, and Joseph graduated from Newark College of Engineering and changed his name to Joseph Strip. He joined the U.S. Army, was sent to Germany in 1944, served as an interpreter with the War Crimes Investigation Team, and translated documents for the Nuremberg Trials. He married Eliane Poser in 1948, had three children, and worked as an engineer for IT&T, the Signal Corps of Engineers, and RCA.