"I always told my children as my father told me, to be a proud Jew, stand up for Jewish causes, and don't let anyone get away with belittling you that you are scum of the earth. And if you can do that, you will have a happy life."
Auschwitz map summer 1944
16 Apr 1945, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany --- Survivors at Buchenwald Concentration Camp remain in their barracks after liberation by Allies on April 16, 1945. Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning author of , is on the second bunk from the bottom, seventh from the left. --- Image by © CORBIS
Contemporary portrait of Abby Weiner in America
Major Death Marches and Evacuations 1944-45
Portrait of Abby and his father
Wartime - deserted street in Sighet ghetto after liquidation of the ghetto, 1944
Prewar portrait of Abby's mother
USHMM Buchenwald map
Wartime - deserted street in Sighet ghetto after liquidation of the ghetto, 1944
Jews undergoing selection at Auschwitz.
WARTIME Jews undergoing selection at auschwitz_birkenau2b
Wartime looking into a barracks at Buchenwald.
Map of Bielica, Poland in 1939
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