They Were Forced Out of Their Home - Sidney Finkel

"Luke's father Eugene, they were forced out of their home, around 1942, and they were sent into a concentration camp as a matter of fact Eugene was in several concentration camps, together with his family. His wife and his two daughters and all his parents were murdered in the Holocaust. He was the only one who survived the war."

"Ah, my sister, I know a little bit more about her, she survived ah, the main thing was that in October of 1942 the Germans closed the ghetto, and they sent all the people on trains to a place called Treblinka where they were gassed. She was very industrious and very smart, and she was able to survive this huge round up, like I did and her brother and her father. She worked for a German economic unit, which was so called, but their job was to go through the belongings of people that left their homes and, and they would pack them up send them to Germany. When the ghetto was closed, she was sent to a concentration camp first in Poland, and then she went to another German concentration camp. She, she suffered a lot."

"I think she was liberated by the British Army, and she also went to this displaced persons camp, and that’s where Eugene, Luke’s father and Lola, Luke’s mother met and they, you know they got together. Eugene heard that his whole family was wiped out and after a year, they decided to get married."