Wolfgang Adler
Wolfgang Adler / Sinai Adler (M / Czechia, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Theresienstadt> <Auschwitz> <Mauthausen> <Gunskirchen> -- <Czechia> <England> <Windermere Children>
- MEMOIRS : Your Rod and Your Staff: A Young Man’s Chronicle of Survival (1996)
Biography
Wolfgang Adler was born in 1928 in Prague, Czechia. He was deported to Theresienstadt in March 1943, and from there to Auschwitz, where his parents were murdered. In January 1945 he was sent on a death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen.
After liberation, he went to back to Prague, where he was hosted with other orphans at the Stirin Castle. In August 1945 he joined the Windermere Children and went to England.
Book (1996)
- Your Rod and Your Staff: A Young Man’s Chronicle of Survival (1996)
Originally written in Hebrew.
The last 28 pages, appended to the English edition, contain an eyewitness account by U.S. General Willard G. Wyman, as well as two other servicemen, describing the liberation of Gunskirchen. The text was produced just after the war as a military press pamphlet.