Miklos Danzig / Michael Danzig (M / Slovakia, 1934-2014), Holocaust survivor
Miklos Danzig / Michael Danzig (M / Slovakia, 1934-2014), Holocaust survivor
Eugen Danzig / Yehuda Danzig (M / Slovakia, 1933), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS -- <Bergen-Belsen> <Liberation of Bergen-Belsen> -- <Schonfeld Children> <England> <Canada>
Biography
Eugen "Yehuda" Danzig (June 18, 1933) and Miklos "Michael" Danzig (Aug 7, 1934) were born in Zlate Moravice, Slovakia.
Mother died in childbirth. Father remarried and the children were brought up by their stepmother Rifka. They had other half-siblings.
Eugen and Michael were liberated by the British army at Bergen-Belsen with their stepmother, sister and brother, after having survived several transit and labor camps and a death march. The family decided to return home to Czechoslovakia. Danzig’s father had died at Berga, a sub-camp of Buchenwald. They had another sister who was disabled and survived the war in an institution.
In April 1948, Eugen and Miklos arrived in the UK as part of a fifth group of child survivors (the Schonfeld Children). Eugen and Miklos qualified for the program of relocation as they were technically orphans. Their stepmother and other half-siblings settled in Israel. In August 1948, Eugen and Miklos were sent to Canada, where they were placed with separate foster families.