Solomon radasky

To print the story please do so via the link in the story toolbar. Radasky worked in the Warsaw Ghetto where he made fur coats for the Tobbens' shop. He was the only one out of the other 78 people in his family to survive. His parents, brothers and sisters were all killed. His mother and sister were killed on Janurary 25, for saying that they had no coats or jewellery when the Germans asked them if they had these items.

On April 2, , his father was shot in the back by a German when a Jewish policeman pointed him out for stealing bread from a boy who smuggled it over the wall of Warsaw ghetto. On July 22, , his 2 brothers and sisters were deported to Treblinka, that was the last time he ever saw somebody from his family. That the shop that Solomon used to work in, was the largest employer in Warsaw Ghetto and still sells popular Eisenhower jackets today?

He was tricked into going to Shultz' shop because somebody told him his sister was there.

Solomon Radasky. How did I survive?

It was the longest lasting Jewish uprising. On May 1, , Radasky was shot in the ankle but the bullet missed his bone so he didn't lose his leg. He was forced to walk 3 kms to work everyday and had to hide his limp in fear of getting hung by the soldiers. A particularly awful experience for Radasky was when a man in his group was smoking but wouldn't confess to the Lagerfuhrer.

Radasky was one of them, but before being beaten to death, an officer took him to be deported to another death camp, Auschwitz on July 3, Upon arriving in Auschwitz, Radasky was immediately taken to get his number tattooed on his arm which was His numbers had a significant meaning as the seperate numbers added up to 18, and the letters in Hebrew stood for a word meaning 'life'.

This gave him the hope to keep holding onto life and to endure the pain he was put through for the time being.