Marcel Grüner / Marcel Zielinski (M / Poland, 1934), Holocaust survivor

Marcel Grüner / Marcel Zielinski (M / Poland, 1934), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Krakow Ghetto> <Plaszow> <Gross-Rosen> <Auschwitz> <Liberation of Auschwitz> -- <Krakow Orphanage> <Poland> <Israel> <Canada>

• MEMOIRS : The Children Accuse (1947), 50-54 -- The Root and the Bough (1949), 294-296

Biography

• Holocaust Survivor Testimonies, Poland #2105 (11 May 1945)
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation

Marcel Grüner (Marcel Zielinski) was born in Krakow, Poland on Sept 28, 1934, the son of Hersz and Sydonia Sternberg. He was first taken to the Krakow Ghetto, then he was deported to <Plaszow>, <Gross-Rosen> and finally <Auschwitz>, where he stayed until liberation on Jan 27, 1945. He walked back to Krakow, where he stayed in an orphanage, until his mother found him. Father never returned. They remained in Poland in Bogatynia and Wrocław. Marcel was competitive cyclist with PAFAWAG in 1954 and graduated electrical engineer from the Politechnika Wrocławska in 1957. He married Maryla in 1957. They emigrated to Israel in 1958 and then to Canada in 1967.

"The author's father was a Jewish policeman in Krakow. During the liquidation of the ghetto, he and his parents were transferred to the camp in Płaszów. Selections of children in the camp. Transport to Gross-Rosen. Meeting with the mother. During the liquidation deported with other children to Auschwitz."