Survivor Gisela Glaser
Brief History
Born in Tarnow, Poland in 1924, Gisela Glaser was one of four children. Her father died shortly before Germany invaded Treblinka, Poland in 1939, and the rest of her immediate and extended family perished at the hands of the Nazis during the War. Glaser endured ghetto life, imprisonment at Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen Belsen, Mauthausen, and Venusburg. She survived these camps as a slave laborer working as a seamstress, a salt-miner, and an airplane-cleaner. After being liberated, Glaser immigrated to the United States and settled in the Bronx.
Glaser's Memoirs
"August 8th 2001 -- During these terrible years of internment, there were many acts of heroism. The uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto is commemorated ever year as a symbol of Jewish defiance. There was resistance in Treblinka, Sobibor, in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in other concentration camps and ghettos. Many times the heroic men and women partisan fighters fought the German army..." Read More
Glaser's Videos
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