Menchem [Bretschneider] Bartel was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust. His parents, Sheindel and Avraham [son of Josef Aron and Udel Bretschneider] and his sister Edzia, were murdered in Skala, the city of their birth. His oldest brother, Hersh, was murdered in a camp in Lvov. His middle brother, Aron, was captured by Hungarian troops towards the end of the war. His fate remains unknown.