- Document ID: do_FuvB8mnjQVWedZcn1xMb7
- Document Collection: 7-5-18 Auswandererkartei (IRO Kartei) des Staatsarchiv Bremen
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Wolf Izak (Willy/William) Fertig
#polish (not Dutch)
See:
https://collections-server.arolsen-archives.org/G/SIMS/01010503/0887/52609410/001.jpg
and
https://collections-server.arolsen-archives.org/G/SIMS/01010503/0887/52609413/001.jpg
Wolf Izak Fertig (1918 - 1981) - Genealogy (geni.com)
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Willy+Fertig/85/5852081
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn617798
William Fertig, born in 1918 in Holland and raised in Berlin, Germany, discusses his family’s flight from Germany to Poland; their time in a crowded ghetto; his experiences during forced labor; his specialty as a plumber and time in a work camp; the murder of his family; his imprisonment in Auschwitz; living day to day and hanging onto hope; suicide among prisoners; working in an ammunitions factory; his survival as a result of his specialized work skills; the Russian invasion of Poland; a forced march in freezing conditions; his relocation to Buchenwald for a brief period; many deaths during the march; escaping from a box car with three other prisoners; finding food and shelter with Czech farmers; help from a Czech policeman; his recovery in a Catholic hospital in Czechoslovakia at the end of the war; his time in a displaced persons camp run by the Americans; meeting his future wife in the displaced persons camp; being sponsored by an American serviceman for his immigration to the United States; and his ongoing nightmares from his wartime experiences.
https://www.mappingthelives.org/bio/02fbec64-5904-4c94-891d-efc2035de526