Hk90

I was 15 years old when the war started. My father had a bicycle and motorcycle store in Czestochowa, Poland. When the Germans took over the city, they selected my 5 year old brother and my mother to be killed. My father died in Buchenwald one day before liberation. I was put in Hassak Labor Camp and ran machines making bullets for the Germans. They made me stand in chemical filled water all day causing sores on my legs. I was liberated by the Russians and spent five years wandering from Poland to Vienna to Budapest and finally Belgium, before emigrating to the U.S. in December 1949.

 

Czestochowa, Poland

Hannah Kushinski