Irving Roth (Slovakia, 1929)
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Irving Roth (Slovakia, 1929)
- KEYWORDS : <Slovakia> <Hungary> <Auschwitz> <Buchenwald> -- <United States>
NOTES : Irving Roth was born in Kosice, Slovakia on September 2 1929. In 1942, the family fled to Hungary to avoid persecution. in 1944 Irving was deported with his brother and grandparents to Auschwitz. He was liberated in April 1945 while imprisoned at Buchenwald. After the war he was reunited to his parents who had survived in hiding. They emigrated in 1951 to the United States. In 2004 he published a memoir dedicate to the memory of his younger brother who perished in the camps.