Charles Growe

"Never again."

Name at birth

Karl Martin Grosz

Date of birth

09/21/1924

Where were you born?

Vienna, Austria

Where did you grow up?

Vienna, Austria

Name of father, occupation

Fred Grosz, Shipping agent, furniture moving

Maiden name of mother, occupation

Stella Schwarz, Homemaker

Immediate family (names, birth order)

Parents, brother Peter and me

How many in entire extended family?

We had a large family, ten aunts and uncles on my mother’s side; three on my father’s side, many first cousins.

Who survived the Holocaust?

My parents, my brother and me.

We got out after Kristallnacht. My parents, my brother, many friends, and I followed my uncle to Shanghai, China, we sailed from Trieste. We came to Bombay, India, Singapore, and then Shanghai. When the Germans came to China, we moved to Tsingtao. Later I ran a bar in Tsingtao until 1948. I came to Detroit because an uncle and aunt lived here. My uncle had lived in United States since 1913.

Name of Ghetto(s)

Shanghai

Occupation after the war

Shipping clerk, Detroit News, U.S. Soldier, salesman

When and where were you married?

1957

Spouse

Rachel Wohl

Children

Michael, Ron, Steve, and Marilyn

Grandchildren

Three: Candace, Teri, and Jake