Lena Gross
"It's not so simple to say, it's impossible to describe the Holocaust... After the Holocaust, life was still hard."
Name at birth
Lena Rosenthal
Date of birth
06/14/1924
Where were you born?
Where did you grow up?
Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia
Name of father, occupation
David Rosenthal,
Had a winery, fields
Maiden name of mother, occupation
Esther Malk Swumer,
Homemaker
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Parents and twelve children: Miriam, Samu, Avraham, Itzik, Feige, Pesal, Hershel, Yakov, Lazar, Necha, Chana and me
Who survived the Holocaust?
6 of 12 children
I was together with three of my sisters in the camps.
Name of Ghetto(s)
Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)
When and where were you married?
1956 in Mukacevo
Spouse
Aron Gross
Children
Benjamin, engineer Isaac, pharmacist
Grandchildren
Five
What do you think helped you to survive?
G-d gave me the years. We were together all three sisters
What message would you like to leave for future generations?
It's not so simple to say, it's impossible to describe the Holocaust... After the Holocaust, life was still hard.
Interviewer:
Charles Silow
Interview date:
04/04/2011
Experiences
Survivor's map
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