Miriam Garvil
Name at birth
Miriam Zack
Date of birth
05/23/1921
Name of father, occupation
Factory owner, made wool
Maiden name of mother, occupation
Managed apartment building
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Parents, oldere sister, Lonya, Miriam
Who survived the Holocaust?
Miriam
Mrs. Garvil wrote a book, I Have To Survive, Miriam's Story, about her life before, during and after the Holocaust.
Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)
Where did you go after being liberated?
Miriam was taken to Sweden to recover from typhoid and tuberculosis.
When did you come to the United States?
1952
Where did you settle?
New York City
How is it that you came to Michigan?
Their son, George, worked for General Motors in Detroit and they followed him here in 1977.
When and where were you married?
Married Julian Garvil in 1948 in Paris, France
Spouse
Julian Garvil
Children
George, engineer for General Motors. Died in 1992.
