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Shep Zitler: A Survivor Story

By: Mykala Fennell

  • Shep became the first

President of the New Americans

Social Club.

  • In September was the first world
  • gathering of the Holocaust

survivors

  • Shep spent the rest of

his life after retirement going

from school to school educating

the youth about the holocaust and

his story.

  • On December 1, 2009 He lost

his life due to a heart attack. He

was 92

  • After the war shep

headed to New Orleans where

he later met his wife Lillian

Weinstein for 38 years before her

passing

  • He later remarried
  • Shep was in various labor

camps for 5 years and 7 months

  • Forced to work on the Autobahn

near Krems, Austria.

  • In the meantime he learned that

most of his family was murdered by

the Nazis

  • Born in Vilna on May 27, 1917
  • He was Drafted into the Polish army
  • After 16 days Poland lost the war and he was taken to a Prisoner-of-war camp
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