Adele Sandel
Name at birth
Adele Helen Deutsch
Where were you born?
Name of father, occupation
President of a bank
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Parents, one sister, one brother, Adele
Adele Sandel was born in Medzilaborce, Czechoslovakia. After the war broke out, Adele avoided being sent to do forced labor by pretending to have tuberculosis and later going into hiding in her home. When the family was forced to leave Medzilaborce, they moved to Dobsina where they stayed until the Germans approached. Fearing the Germans, Adele and her family went into hiding in the forests, eventually settling in a bunker outside of Brdarka where they lived until liberation. After the war, Adele started a family in Czechoslovakia before moving to the United States.
To learn more about this survivor please visit the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interview.php?D=sandelad§ion=1
To learn more about this survivor please visit the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interview.php?D=sandelad§ion=1
Where were you in hiding?
Hiding in the forest in bunkers
Where did you settle?
Detroit, Michigan
How is it that you came to Michigan?
Sister was in Detroit.
When and where were you married?
Married in 1948
Spouse
Marcel Sandel ,
Partner in textile company
Children
One son
Grandchildren
Three grandchildren
Interviewer:
Voice Vision of Michigan
To learn more about this survivor, please visit:
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/sandelad/
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/sandelad/
