One of the 1,986 antisemitic incidents reported in 2017 happened in Charlottesville, Virginia. A group of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched through the streets carrying swastika banners and chanting antisemitic slogans.
Suzy Ressler, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who made Philadelphia her home, reflected on that particular event and the rise in antisemitism in America. Read Suzy’s biography and watch her clip of testimony.
About the Interviewee
Suzy Ressler (née Edith Suzanne Czitrom), daughter of Dezsö and Elizabeth was born on November 19, 1927, in Oradea, Romania. In March 1944, Nazi Germany occupied Hungary, including Oradea. Suzy and her family had to live in the Oradea ghetto, however, the family’s house was located in the ghetto. When the ghetto was liquidated in June 1944, the family was deported to the Auschwitz camp complex in Nazi-occupied Poland. Suzy was transferred to Stutthof, a concentration camp in Germany. She remained there until a death march in the winter of 1944 – 1945. After liberation, Suzy returned to Ordea, where she married Emmerick Ressler. They immigrated to the United States and settled in the Philadelphia area.