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  Solomon Radasky (Survivor)  By: Mary Meagher Solomon Radasky was a Holocaust survivor. He was a victim of the holocaust which means that he was targeted by Nazis for imprisonment, forced labor, or death. He was born on May 17, 1910, and died at age 92 on August 4, 2002. Before the holocaust Solomon was a furrier and he sewed coats for German officers. This skill of his helped him survive because he then made/sewed a hat for a Kapo, a prisoner in charge of other prisoners that determine life or death for you, and after he made the cap for the Kapo he didn’t beat him or torture him anymore.

Solomon was Jewish and was 32 when the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising happened; he had no part in stopping the Germans but he was shot in the leg. After that they transported him to the Majdanek concentration camp and then to Auschwitz where he went to the Buna concentration camp. There he got a job of bringing sand to a town and burying the ashes of the dead Jews.

He was then saved by American soldiers and moved to the New Orleans, Louisiana with his wife Frieda. He got a sewing job at a store and had two children.

__ Cited Sources __ [] [] __ The Holocaust __. 2. Danbury, CT: Charles E. Smith Books, Inc., 1997.