Pearl Friedman

"Never Again!"

Name at birth

Piroska Bornstein

Date of birth

10/04/1926

Where were you born?

Hagdushmson, Hungary

Where did you grow up?

Budapest, Hungary

Name of father, occupation

Baily Bornstein , Musician

Maiden name of mother, occupation

Marget Bornstein , Clothing maker

Immediate family (names, birth order)

Parents, Rosi (1918-1939) died of heart attack, Elonica (1921-1944), both half-sisters from my father's marriage to my aunt who died of a heart attack very young.

Who survived the Holocaust?

Only me

My father Baily was a talented musician. Marget, my mother was a very loving, soft kind. She made clothes but had stomach problems, ulcers. I didn’t know my grandfather Yishka, he was 75 years old when he died. He delivered sugar for a living.

I made shoes in Budapest and then was taken to Auschwitz. We were not religious growing up. After the camps, we went to Sweden, then Chicago and finally settled in Detroit. I was good at sewing, cooking. I liked to give to others.

Name of Ghetto(s)

Budapest

Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)

Auschwitz Birkenau / Bergen Belsen

Where did you go after being liberated?

Sweden

When did you come to the United States?

1951

Where did you settle?

Chicago, then Detroit

Occupation after the war

I made Florsheim shoes