Eugen Danzig / Yehuda Danzig (M / Slovakia, 1933), Holocaust survivor
Yehuda "Eugene" Danzig (M / Slovakia, 1933), Holocaust survivor
Miklos "Michael" Danzig (M / Slovakia, 1934-2014), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS -- <Bergen-Belsen> <Liberation of Bergen-Belsen> -- <Canada>
Biography
Yehuda "Eugene" Danzig (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.
Yehuda 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 1948, Yehuda and Miklos arrived in the UK as part of a fifth group of child survivors (the Schonfeld Children). Yehuda and Miklos qualified for the programme as they were technically orphans. Their stepmother and other half-siblings settled in Israel. In August 1948, Miklos and Yehuda were sent to Canada, where they were placed with a foster family.