Susan filled out a form about her father. Eventually, in August 2016, 13 years after her mother passed away, Susan went to a meeting of Café Europa, a social club for survivors, where I was presenting a program about the Red Cross’s Holocaust tracing services. Throughout her life, Susan kept wondering about her father. “He was a good person, a nice person, hard-working,” she said. “I didn’t know the details,” Susan told us.Īs a child, she had no memories of her father, just a few pictures and some comments that her mother, aunt and cousins sometimes told her. Susan only knew that her father had been interned at the Bor Mines work camp in Yugoslavia. Following the war, a friend told Susan and Antonia that he had been taken to Germany, where he spent his last days. Her mother, Antonia, also was in hiding, but the two were separated.Īfter liberation, Susan and her mother found each other. She survived the remaining years of the war in hiding, with an aunt, her aunt’s husband and their two children. When Susan Gati was four years old, her father, Imre Tandler, left their apartment in Budapest, Hungary, in 1943, to report for forced labor. Susan Gati, a woman I helped reconnect with her family through the Restoring Family Links Holocaust tracing program, is just one the cases I had the pleasure of working on: Also, some of our clients have found loved ones, still alive today, who were lost during the Holocaust. Usually, Restoring Family Links only focuses on reuniting people with missing relatives. With our Holocaust cases, we expand that research to include friends lost due to the Holocaust, in addition to family.Įven when our clients receive confirmation that their relatives or friends were deported or did not survive the war, they are still grateful to learn the new information.Ĭonfirmation of a loved one’s fate can bring peace. Since 1939, the Red Cross has enabled thousands of people to find documentation on their loved ones’ Holocaust experiences, which include forced labor, forced evacuation from former Soviet territories and internment in concentration camps. This service is part of our Restoring Family Links program that reunites people separated by war, natural disasters, migration and other humanitarian crises. We help people find missing loved ones separated by the Holocaust. For more than 14 years, I have participated in an extraordinary service provided by the American Red Cross.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |