Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Holocaust survivors, families gather at Bernikow JCC, where Emil Jacoby's art ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The ultimate survivors, those who suffered at the hands of the Nazis, gathered with family and friends last Sunday at the JCC in Sea View to bond amidst the artwork of the late Holocaust survivor, artist and writer Emil Jacoby.

Rachel Borenstein of Dongan Hills Colony shared her recollections and 35 of her father’s art works at the second annual Cafe Europa attended by more than 50 Holocaust survivors, their children and grandchildren, other family and friends.

Jacoby’s poem, “My Memories,” was read by Oren Iunger, husband of Estee Borenstein Iunger, Mrs. Borenstein’s daughter. Also present was Mrs. Borenstein’s husband, Gabriel.

“I lived the art,” said survivor Moritz Perelman of Grymes Hill.

Survivor Kathleen Megerman of Sunnyside said the memories “always come back to you.”

“In the beginning it was very hard looking for my family that didn’t exist anymore,” Ms. Megerman said.

“Once I was married and had my own children, there was no time for anything, not to cry about it.”

The artist was born Emil Jacobovitz in 1923 in Bushtina, what was then Czechoslovakia and is now part of the Ukraine. Jacoby was studying art in Budapest, Hungry, when he received a postcard in 1941 from his mother, Rachel, informing him that her husband, Menachem Mendel, was shot and killed by the Nazis and she and her sons, Bezalel and Nissim, were being sent to concentration camps. His entire immediate family was killed by Nazi executioners in the Jewish massacres at Kamenets Podolski in Ukrane in 1941.

In March 1944, Jacoby was conscripted into the Nazi labor brigade and slaved at a military camp near Budapest and then at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria before liberation occurred in May 1945.

He immigrated to Israel in 1949, married Betty Bercu and was one of the founders of the modern city of Beth Shemesh and fought in the Six-Day War. In 1969, he and his family immigrated to America, first to Long Beach, L.I., then Brooklyn and finally Grasmere in 1982. He died in 1998.

“My father never shared his memories of the Holocaust but when he retired at 60 he dedicated the rest of his life to the Holocaust,” Mrs. Borenstein said.

“Every piece of work is his searing memories of what happened.

Vienna - Austria To Revamp Mauthausen Concentration Camp ...

Vienna - Austrian authorities presented plans Wednesday to restore and revamp the former Mauthausen concentration camp, calling it an important contribution to preventing the resurgence of Nazi sentiment.

The Nazis shot, gassed, beat or worked to death about half the 200,000 inmates in the main camp or its affiliates around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen, located near the city of Linz. It is now a site for commemorating Holocaust victims and learning about the horrors of history. About 200,000 people — including many students — visit Mauthausen each year.

Projects include an exhibit about mass extermination, expanding educational programs and the creation of a new space specifically for the remembrance of those who died, the Interior Ministry said.

“With this, we are sending a signal that the republic is assuming its national and international responsibility to commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime,” Interior Minister Maria Fekter said in a statement. “We are also sending signals against intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism.”

The first phase of the revamp is expected to cost €1.7 million ($2.4 million) and be completed in early 2013.

A Jewish group welcomed the announcement.

“The preservation of this site is a solemn tribute to the innocent victims of the Nazi ‘extermination through labor’ policies,” Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said in a statement. “It will serve an important commemorative and educational role for the youth and future generations of Austria”.

I want to see it without any toll booth! those murderous Austrians! they were at the center of the action! I want them to put up a sign proclaiming a big apology for killing, torturing etc. they are directly guilty in this crime! let them not make a penny ever! let them put up their guilt for the world to see and to never forget! they first handedly killed many of our family members!

I was in concentration camp and due the need of increment in my federal salary I worked for a psychiatrist who examined survivors and some belonged to the "Kanada" group those who entered the gas chambers in order to search the bodies for gold and remove the teeth. There was probably total eerie silence but the one person whose report I read described the small children who in their death throes dug their little nails in their mother's skin and some I don't feel like describing here.

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