Zwi Steiger
Date of birth
01/17/1922
Where were you born?
Name of father, occupation
Bank manager
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Parents, five children - two sisters died very young.
Who survived the Holocaust?
Zwi and one brother who left for Israel in 1940
Zwi Steiger was born on January 17, 1922 in Velký Berezný, Czechoslovakia. After finishing his education in Munkacs at the age of sixteen, Zwi joined the Czechoslovakian army. During the Hungarian occupation he was taken to work in several labor camps. In 1944 Zvi escaped from a labor camp in Romania and hid in a forest for three weeks before being picked up by two Wehrmacht soldiers. The soldiers let him go and he made his way through Transylvania back home to Velký Berezný to collect his remaining belongings. Zwi then stayed in Cluj and Prague while attending medical school before moving to Israel to be with his brother. While attending a medical training seminar in the United States, he met and married his wife Amelia.
When did you come to the United States?
May 1957
How is it that you came to Michigan?
Met his wife in Detroit and stayed here
Occupation after the war
Physician
When and where were you married?
Detroit, 1964
Spouse
Amelia
Children
Two sons - David and Jacob
Interviewer:
Voice/Vision of Michigan, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Interview date:
03/27/1982
To learn more about this survivor, please visit:
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interview.php?D=steiger§ion=44
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interview.php?D=steiger§ion=44
