Goldie Gendelman
Goldie was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Lachowicze, Poland. Her family ran a successful two-room shoe factory from the home. In September 1937, she and her family sailed to Cuba, where they remained safe during the war. Goldie received her visa for the U.S. in November 1947. On January 28, 1948, she and her family traveled to Miami, Florida, hoping for a better life. Her father could not get a job in Miami, so he and other family members left for New York. Goldie stayed with her uncle in Florida and finished middle school. Goldie then joined her family in New York and attended high school in Brooklyn. She worked for a trucking company while attending night school; she wanted to be an accountant.
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Who is a Survivor?
The Museum defines a survivor as a person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos this includes, among others, refugees and people in hiding.
Survivor Volunteers
Sam and Regina Spiegel (both survivor volunteers) first met in a Nazi forced-labor camp. They were reunited after the war. This photograph shows their wedding in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany.
Sam and Regina Spiegel, Maryland/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #29745
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Contact Us
Ellen Blalock
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
E-mail: eblalock@ushmm.org
Tel.: (202) 488-0414
Leslie Kornreich
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
E-mail: lkornreich@ushmm.org
Tel.: (202) 479-9732
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If you are interested in arranging a speaking engagement with a survivor either at the Museum or in your community, please refer to Guidelines for Arranging a Survivor Presentation.
In Memoriam Frank Ephraim
We note with sadness the death of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Survivor Volunteer Frank Ephraim, who passed away Sunday, August 27, 2006. Frank had served as a Museum volunteer since the Museum’s opening in 1993 in Education, Visitor Services, and the Volunteer Advisory Board (including serving as VAB president). Frank contributed to the four volumes of the Museum’s Echoes of Memory survivor writing project, and authored Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).
TIBOR RUBIN
Holocaust Survivor and Korean War POW
Tibor Rubin, a Survivor from Mauthausen concentration camp, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courageous service during the Korean War at a White House ceremony on September 23, 2005. Mr. Rubin, a former Army Corporal, is the first Jewish Korean War veteran and the first Holocaust Survivor to be awarded this honor.
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What We Do
- Represent and work with over 60 survivor volunteers at the Museum.
- Support Public Programs at the Museum, such as First Person.
- Organize conferences and programs outside the Museum. (Our representatives travel throughout the United States and all over Europe).
- Coordinate The Memory Project which is a Writers Workshop for Survivor Volunteers which meet once a month.
- Form links with other Survivor and Second Generation organizations worldwide.
The Museum is
SEEKING SURVIVORS
who resided in France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany in 1946.
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