Marvin Kozlowski

"I hope my children and grandchildren should never know from discrimination. Not to dwell on the past but to live life to its fullest."

Name at birth
Moshe (Moniek) Kozlowski
Date of birth
04/26/1920
Where were you born?
Where did you grow up?
Radom, Poland
Name of father, occupation
Mordka, Had a grocery and liquor store
Maiden name of mother, occupation
Rivka Frydman, Worked in the store
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Parents, three daughters and two sons: Itka, me, Hela, Fela and Shlomo (Solomon)
Who survived the Holocaust?
Only my father and I
When the war broke out, my father was sent to a slave labor camp in southern Germany.  One year later, my father returned, our family now was in the Glinice Ghetto.  One year later, the Germans liquidated the ghetto.  A selection took place around midnight, there were many bright lights. My mother and my siblings were sent to the left and later sent to Treblinka to their deaths.  My father and I were sent to the right and later sent to work in an ammunition factory.  
 
It was a very hard life in the factory, working twelve hour shifts. It was very hard labor, with little food. The Germans hung twelve people in front of all of the 1000 workers in the factory and let them hang there for two weeks.  Later, they hung another twelve people.  I was beaten and lived in fear for my life, “it was not to be described.” 
 
When my father and I arrived at Auschwitz, we didn’t know what it was at first, there was an orchestra playing when we arrived.
Name of Ghetto(s)
Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)
Occupation after the war
Tailor
Spouse
Edith London Koslowski
Children
Jay, cardiologist Ruth, rhematologist Joseph, radiologist
Grandchildren
Six
What do you think helped you to survive?
Luck and my youth. I worked under terrible conditions in the ammunition factory in Radom for Daimler.
What message would you like to leave for future generations?
I hope my children and grandchildren should never know from discrimination. Not to dwell on the past but to live life to its fullest.
Interviewer:
Charles Silow
Interview date:
01/21/2009
To learn more about this survivor, please visit:
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/kozlowski/

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