THE MUSEUM OF FAMILY HISTORY presents

WALK IN MY SHOES

Collected Memories of the Holocaust

 

Survivor Stories from Today's Ukraine


Please click on the photographs to read and hear their stories.

 

KLEINMANN, Peter (Dezider)
born in 1925 in Kuštanovice, Czechoslovakia
(a one hour's walk from Mukačevo)

before WWI: Munkács, Hungary
between WWI and II: Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia
after WWII: Mukachëvo, Soviet Union
today: Mukacheve, Ukraine
Yiddish spelling: Munkatch
 
Museum of
Family History
 NEW YORK		 Peter Kleinmann
of Munkacz

 
SPIEGEL, Perl
born in 1920 in Czernowitz, Ukraine (then Cernăuţi, Romania)

before WWI: Czernowitz, Austrian Empire
between WWI and II: Cernăuţi, Romania
after WWII: Chernovtsy, Soviet Union
today: Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Yiddish spelling: Tschernowitz
 
Museum of
Family History
 NEW YORK		 Perl Spiegel
of Czernowitz

 

SMILOVIC, Shiku
born in 1928 in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia

before WWI: Munkács, Hungary
between WWI and II: Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia
after WWII: Mukachëvo, Soviet Union
today: Mukacheve, Ukraine
Yiddish spelling: Munkatch
 
Museum of
Family History
 NEW YORK		 Shiku Smilovic
of Munkacz

 

SMILOVIC, Leo
born in 1914 in Patakos, Czechoslovakia

before WWI: Patakos, Hungary
between WWI and II: Patskanovo, Czechoslovakia
after WWII: Patakos, Hungary
today: Patskan'ovo, Ukraine
Yiddish: Paczkenyov
 

 
Museum of
Family History
 NEW YORK		 Leo Smilovic
of Munkacz

 

SMILOVIC, Heddy
born in 1920 in Patakos, Czechoslovakia

before WWI: Patakos, Hungary
between WWI and II: Patskanovo, Czechoslovakia
after WWII: Patakos, Hungary
today: Patskan'ovo, Ukraine
Yiddish: Paczkenyov
 

 
Museum of
Family History
 NEW YORK		 Heddy Smilovic
of Munkacz

 

 

 

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