Jenoe Roth
"Our neighbors robbed us of our possessions as soon as we were forced to leave. Here in America, I've seen anti-Semitism as my children were growing up."
Name at birth
Jenoe Yehuda Roth
Date of birth
01/20/1916
Where were you born?
Where did you grow up?
Hucst, Czechoslovakia
Name of father, occupation
Isidore Roth,
Soldier (died in WWI)
Maiden name of mother, occupation
Miriam Lebowitz,
Seamstress
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Mother, Sandor, Joseph and me
How many in entire extended family?
8
Who survived the Holocaust?
Sandor, Joseph and me (our mother died at Auschwitz) One of my mother's four sisters also survived. She moved to Israel after the war.'
At the start of the war I was in the Czechoslovakian Army. I was a soldier like my father. I stayed in the army until 1943 when they told the Jews to leave and report to the Police. I was then sent to work in Forced labor camps in Hungary, we built railroads. I was also on the Russian front, in the Carpathian Mountains, digging tank traps with a Jewish Forced Labor Battalion. I was in Forced Labor from 1943, to the end of the war in 1945.
Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)
What DP Camp were you after the war?
Yes, in Degendorf, Germany, for four years.
When did you come to the United States?
1949
How is it that you came to Michigan?
HIAS sent us to Detroit. This was a growing community.
Occupation after the war
Barber
When and where were you married?
1945 in Sighet, Romania
Spouse
Tobi Bittman
Children
Miriam and Irving
Grandchildren
Two grandchildren: Miriam and Carl One great-grandson: Nathan
What do you think helped you to survive?
We all helped each other.
What message would you like to leave for future generations?
Our neighbors robbed us of our possessions as soon as we were forced to leave. Here in America, I've seen anti-Semitism as my children were growing up.
Interviewer:
Charles Silow
Interview date:
04/04/2011
Experiences
Survivor's map
