Watch the video compilation featuring the following Holocaust survivors, Max Eisen, Hedy Bohm, Elly Gotz and Nate Leipciger, who share their message to humanity.
Max Eisen was born on March 15, 1929, in Moldava nad Bodvou, Czechoslovakia. In April 1944, the Eisen family was deported to a ghetto in Košice. From the ghetto, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Max was liberated at a subcamp of Mauthausen, and he was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust. Max passed away on July 7, 2022.
Hedy Bohm was born in Oradea, Romania on May 11, 1928. She was the only daughter of Elizabeth and Ignatz Klein. In April 1944, Hedy and her family were forced to leave her home. They were sent to the Oradea Ghetto. Soon later they were sent to Auschwitz, where they were separated. By April 1945, Hedy was liberated from Salzwedel Concentration Camp by U.S. Armed Forces. She arrived in Canada in April 1948.
Elly Gotz was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 8, 1928. Upon the Nazi invasion of Lithuania in August 1941, life changed immediately for Elly and his family. Soon after, Elly and his family were forced to move into the Kaunas Ghetto. By July 1944, they were deported to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. In April 1945, Elly and his father were liberated from Dachau by the U.S. Armed Forces. They were eventually reunited with his mother who survived. Elly immigrated to Toronto, Ontario with his wife and three children in 1964.
Nathan (Nate) Leipciger was born on February 28, 1928, in Chorzów, Poland to Jacob and Leah Lepiciger. He grew up in a mining town with one sister, Linka. When the family was deported to Auschwitz, they separated his mother and sister from them, never to see them again. Nathan and his father spent 21 months in various concentration camps. He credits his father for saving him numerous times from death. On May 2, 1945, Nathan was liberated and sent to a convent. In June 1948, after living in Bamberg, Germany, for three years, Leipciger and his father immigrated to Canada. Nathan was interviewed by the USC Shoah Foundation on February 13, 1996, in Toronto, Ontario.