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Isak Borenstein

By: Taylor Thompson

End of War

The Invasion

  • American soldiers came
  • German guards were told to execute the remaining prisoners
  • Instead they took prisoners back to Linz lll
  • Stopped in Wes and American soldier told prisoners to break all their rifles and take the SS guards to the camp.
  • Overwhelmed Isak ran away and bought sugar and water to survive off of for three days
  • Started home when a Russian soldier told him to join army
  • In the Russian army for 14 months
  • Returned to Radom: found out that the Germans came looking for him a few days after Isak left to Russia
  • Killed another man with the last name of Borenstein
  • Fun fact: Radom had 34,000 jews that lived there. In the end Isak couldn't even find 10 Jews left
  • http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/data.show.php?di=record&da=survivors&ke=1
  • Age 20 when invaded
  • Ran away to Russia and became a carpenter
  • When Russia was invaded, he joined the Russian Army and changed his name to Broniewski (a polish name)
  • Germans surrounded all 35 Jews and killed all but two
  • Took both surviving men as prisoners of war
  • Isak escaped and a Russian woman hid him
  • For a while he was safe until his friend told the Germans about Isak and 60 other Jews
  • Arrested and taken to a prison in Dnepropetrovsk.

Relation

  • Hazel Thompson
  • Born February 14, 1918
  • Birthplace: Adairsville, Ga
  • Women took over man jobs

Prison

  • While in prison, someone said that he looked like a Jew
  • Spent 10 days in the death chamber where he met a young girl named Ira Pogorelskaja
  • She nursed him when he could not move because of the beatings.
  • Ira held him in her arms and protected him from the other prisoners. She saved bread and fed him.
  • She was half- Jewish and a member of the Communist youth organization.
  • They took her out of the jail and she never returned.

Death Chamber

  • Given cold showers
  • Beaten with leather straps
  • Beaten so much that should have confessed about being a jew but stuck to the story of being a soldier
  • Convinced the German soldiers
  • Almost ratted out by a Polish officer prisoner
  • Russian prisoners beat the officer to death or Isak would have been caught and killed
  • Pure luck that he survived

Journey

  • Taken to Auschwitz but no room so then taken to Mauthausen
  • Mauthausen: killed bad, good worked, sick was hospitalized
  • Isak had typhoid so he got hospitalized
  • Polish hospital worker recognized that Isak was jewish
  • Sent him to a sub-camp called Schlier-Redl-Zipf.
  • Only way of survival
  • Worked in factory that exploded then sent to Linz lll

The Life of Isak

Linz lll

  • Forced to watch hangings
  • Slaughterhouse: treated like animals
  • Saved three times here:
  • 1) German was going to kill someone out of rage. Gun pointed at Isak. Another German said he was a soldier so kill someone else.
  • 2) Got extra soup going to be shot. German saw the low number which meant a long time in camp. Needed to live longer
  • 3) Bomb that Isak had to defuse. Hit bomb with a hammer and it broke off and did not explode
  • Born: May 5, 1918
  • Role in War: Prisoner of war
  • Birthplace: Radom, Poland
  • Occupation before war: Helped his dad who was a livestock dealer
  • Slaughtered in their own home which was against the law
  • only ate part of the meat which was kosher.
  • Jews not allowed to eat blood
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