Memories of Kaminsk

Victor Breitburg, perhaps the sole living survivor born in Kamiensk, writes about his birthplace. A survivor of the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz, Victor is one of "The Boys," a group of several hundred young camp survivors sent to England in 1945 and 1946. Their experiences have been immortalized in Martin Gilbert's acclaimed book, The Boys: Triumph over Adversity, published in 1996. Victor arrived in England with the Windermere group and lived in the Cardross Hostel in Scotland. He emigrated to the United States in the late forties and has maintained contact with "The Boys." He is actively engaged in Holocaust education and is held in high esteem by the educational authorities in New Jersey.

A 1930 family portrait of Eva, David and 3-year-old Victor Breitburg

The Road from Kaminsk to Brooklyn: The story of Victor's grandparents, Shlomo Vigdor and Sura Kaila Wajnman, and their descendants.

Additional testimonies by Victor Breitburg:

The Return to Lodz: Life in Lodz and Kamiensk before and after World War II, and a return visit 52 years later.
Black September 1942: Life and death inside the Lodz ghetto, and the terrible action of September 1942 when the Jews in the ghetto were forced to give up more than 15,000 children, elderly and sick.
From Ghetto Lodz To Auschwitz
Ray of Hope: From Auschwitz to Concentration Camp Rhemsdorf 1945 and Finally to Freedom at Theresienstadt: Victor's story of survival in the last months of World War II.

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