Sidy Weiss

" That it should never, never, never, nobody, not our children, not our grandchildren, nobody in the world should ever experience anything like that again."

Name at birth

Szeren Berger

Date of birth

12/25/1927

Where were you born?

Radvan, Czechoslovakia

Name of father, occupation

Joseph Berger, Had a variety store and some land

Maiden name of mother, occupation

Malvin Newman, Helped in store

Immediate family (names, birth order)

Parents, Edith, Emil, me, Miksha and Nellie

Who survived the Holocaust?

Only Edith and I. Edith passed away in Israel in 1962

I received a tattoo on the second time I came to Auschwitz, A-17219

After surviving Auschwitz the first time, I was sent to Cracow-Plaszow where I worked building barracks and in a mine. From Cracow-Plaszow, I was sent once again to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz I was sent to Ausgsberg where I worked in an airplane factory and later to Feldafing slave labor camps. I was liberated by the U.S. Army.

Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)

Augsberg / Auschwitz Birkenau / Feldafing / Krakow Plaszow

When did you come to the United States?

1949

Occupation after the war

Worked in a Chocolate Factory, Making Draperies and Bakery

When and where were you married?

1947 in Czechoslovakia

Spouse

Steven Weiss, Butcher

Children

Allan and Marlene

What do you think helped you to survive?

I had a very strong faith. I wanted to live.

What message would you like to leave for future generations?

That it should never, never, never, nobody, not our children, not our grandchildren, nobody in the world should ever experience anything like that again.