Jack Beigelman (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor

Jack Beigelman (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Lodz Ghetto> <Auschwitz> <Glechamberg> -- <Germany> <UNited States>

Biography

Jack Biegelman was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He was deported to Auschwitz and <Glechamberg>. After the war, lived with an uncle in Germany and then emigrated to the United States.

USHMM Oral History Collection

Jack Biegelman, born in Łódź, Poland in 1930, describes being part of a large family, where music was the major vocational and recreational focus; being a young boy when the Germans invaded Poland; the turmoil and the powerful images of the German military force; life in the ghetto; doing forced labor; being transported with his family to Auschwitz in 1944; the death of his mother and younger brother; his father surviving several months, but dying from illness; enduring the horrors, starvation, and work at Auschwitz; being transferred to Glechamberg camp, where he was liberated by the Russians; returning to Łódź; living with an uncle in Germany; going to the United States and, with the aid of Jewish organization, being placed in the home of a retired school teacher; his studies in music; enlisting in the Air Force during the Korean War; getting married and having three children; his life in Cleveland, OH; and his commitment to Jewish organizations, especially those dealing with education and commemoration of the Holocaust.