Joseph Szwarcberg / Jozef Schwarczberg (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor

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Joseph Szwarcberg / Jozef Schwarczberg (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor.

Biography

Joseph Szwarcberg was born in 1930 in Kozienice, Poland, and grew up in a very religious family. After the German occupation, Joseph, his parents, and his five siblings were forced into the ghetto, where his mother perished. In Aug. 1942, Joseph and his brother Benjamin were taken to the Wolka labor camp, where Benjamin was shot. Joseph was transferred to Skarzysko, then to the Buchenwald concentration camp where he was liberated on Apr. 11, 1945. Only 14 years old, Joseph was put in the care of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) which was responsible for the "Buchenwald children," as the child survivors were called. He emigrated to France through the auspices of the OSE and then to Australia in 1948, to live with his sisters, who also survived.

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