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Isak Borenstein : A Survivor's Story

Camps Isak Was Taken To

Gates Outside Auschwitz

Isak in 2005

Life in Dnepropetrovsk

-Dneproptrovsk

-Auschwitz

-Mauthausen

-Linz-III

Prisoner of War March

Capture & Escape

-Tortured by being given cold showers and being beaten severely

-Sent to the death chamber of the prison

-Met a girl named Ira Pogorelskja

-Ira was removed from the chamber and was never heard from agian.

Pola Borenstein

-Stationed in Kremenchung, Ukraine when the Nazi's captured him and his entire troop

- Sent to a Prisoner of War camp, but he escaped while marching

- He changed his last name from Borenstein to Broniewski.

- Went to work at a nearby hospital

-Joined the Partisans

-Was arrested because of his friend

Liberation

-Worked on a barge days before the camp was liberated

-Asked to break down all the rifles except four and return the SS officers to Linz-III

Fleeing to Russia

Linz-III Camp Liberation

-Fled to Russia

-Worked as a carpenter

-When the German's finally invaded Russia, Isak enlisted in the Russian army to escape the immediate threat of being deported.

Enlistment In The Russian Army

Russian Soilders

Introduction

- He was stopped by a Russian officer on his way home.

-Drafted into the army

-Served fourteen months

-He recieved news that his brother, Abe, was still alive and recovering from Buchenwald concentration camp in a German sanitorium.

Death of Pola

-Passed away on December 18th, 2012

-Born May 5th, 1918 in Radom, Poland.

-His father was a livestock dealer.

-He had three brothers and three sisters; two of his sisters names were Hannah and Lola. One brother's name was Abe.

Death of Isak

Reuniting With Abe

4 Members of the Borenstein Family

Isak and Abe Borenstein after the Holocaust

Pola along with other Holocaust survivors

-Died in 2005 at age 87

-He had been married for 57 years when he passed away.

-He left behind Pola, Morris, and two grandchilderen.

The Death of Abe

-Isak visited Abe in a German sanitorium and didn't even recognize his own brother.

-Abe told stories to Isak of what had happened to the Borenstein family when Isak fled to Russia.

-Lived together in Stuttgart, Germany

Citations

-Passed away in 1974 in New Orleans

Pola Borenstein

Life After The Holocaust

Menszer, John. "Isak Borenstein ." Survivor Stories. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct 2013.

"Pola Borenstein, seamstress, grocer, retail clerk and Shoah survivor." Crescent City Jewish News. N.p., 19 Dec 2012. Web. 21 Oct 2013.

Borenstein , Abe. "The Testament Of Abe Borenstein." Texts. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct 2013.

-Married Pola Bojman, a fellow Holocaust survivor, in 1948

-The couple moved with Abe and his wife to New Orleans in 1951 and remained in the United States until they passed away.

-Isak and Abe opened a woodworking shop together and bought rental apartments.

-Later in life Pola and Isak had one child named Morris "Sammy" (Sabena) Borenstein.

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