Stanley Weinstein (M / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor

Stanley Weinstein (M / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor.

• KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Buchenwald> <Liberation of Buchenwald> / <United States> <Canada>

Biography

Stanley Weinstein was born in 1928 in Jaslo, Poland. In 1942, his parents and sisters were deported to the Belzec killing centre. Stanley never saw his family again. As a young teenager, he was selected for forced labour and worked in various factories in Poland before being deported to Buchenwald.

As the American army approached the camp, the camp guards forced the prisoners on a death march. Stanley was not evacuated and remained in the camp with the other children. He was liberated by the Americans on April 11, 1945.

George were among the 903 child Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald.

• USHMM Collections -- Escorted by American soldiers, a transport of child survivors of Buchenwald file out of the main gate of the camp (17 April 1945). Among the children pictured are Izio Rosenman (head of column), Jacques Finkel, Charles Finkel, Fredek Margolis, Lalek Russ, Salek Sandowski, George Goldbloom (Idel Goldblum) and ? Zylber. Misho Frailich, Willy Fogel, A. Grossman, Lotci Miller, Laiza Grynberg, Usha Grynberg, David Perlmutter, Marek Lodzinsky, Yankel Kapelush, Yosel Dziubak, Loyosh Hershkovitz, ? Yakubovitz, Reuven Wekselman, Stanley Weinstein, Herschek Zeit, Henryk Kolber, Jacques Werber and Philip Kaner. Mor Stern is the boy in the beret and white coat, with right arm hanging down straight just right of the two American soldiers.

Amongst thousands of other children, Stanley waited for two months in the camp to be relocated. He immigrated to the United States, visited Montreal in 1952 and decided to move there.