Mel Federbush: The Ultimate Interview - Hour Four

11/26/13 • 51 min

Melvin Federbush's Holocaust Survivor Stories

Before the war: Dreaming of being an architect,remembering his parents Feige Feldman-Federbush and her sisters, Rachel, Perl and her husband Laizer in Garvolin, Gutche in Warsaw, Leah Rosenberg, their children all named Menachem Mendel and Simcha. His grandmother, Reizl Gelman-Feldman and her sister's daughters Nachumah and Sadie - (their mothers were sisters of Mel's grandmother.) Plus, Famous songs from Deblin: Modzitzer Neggunim, Mel's Bar Mitzvah in the local shteibl, Kristallnacht and more.

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Mel Federbush: - The Ultimate Interview - Hour Three

Holocaust deniers, Buchenwald: Where the survivors went after the liberation. Family life before the war. Rachel: Mel's mother's youngest sister in Turobin, Mel's twin sisters (Toba, Sheindl), living in two rooms. Mel's brother Henoch who did not survive, Mel tries to ditch cheder, living together with non-Jews, communism vs. zionism. Street games and dancing in Deblin. Artwork discovered in Germany in 2013.

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MEL FEDERBUSH: THE ULTIMATE INTERVIEW - HOUR FIVE

Harrowing details in this episode. Mel reveals the intricate story of how his parents and sisters were killed when the war broke out in 1939. The bombing of his village. Seeing his first dead body. Working for the Nazis. Falsely arrested and tortured. Deportations to Sobibor and and Treblinka. Much more.