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Jun 30, 2023 · In 1957 he married Joan Merlis. They have two children. Marty volunteered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Martin “Marty” Weiss was born Meier Weiss on January 28, 1929 in Veľká Poľana, Czechoslovakia to Jacob and Golda Weiss. Jacob was a subsistence farmer and a meat distributor, and Golda managed their orthodox Jewish ...
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Jul 6, 2023 · In 1957 he married Joan Merlis. They had two children. Marty volunteered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1998 until his death in 2023. Martin Weiss and his family were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Explore Marty’s biography and his description of arrival in Auschwitz.
In March 1944, German occupied Hungary and several weeks later, Hungarian gendarmes transported the village's Jews, including Martin's family, to the Munkács transit ghetto. In May, they were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. There they underwent a selection process. Martin, his father, brother, two sisters, and two uncles ...
May 5, 2009 · This podcast series presents excerpts of interviews with Holocaust survivors from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s public program First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors. In today’s episode Martin Weiss talks with host Bill Benson about his deportation and arrival at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi killing center.
May 4, 2012 · You are watching Martin Weiss, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. To learn more about Martin and explore the stories of other Holocaust survivors and witnesses, vi...
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May 7, 2008 · The life stories of Holocaust survivors transcend the decades and remind us of the constant need to be vigilant citizens and to stop injustice, prejudice, and hatred wherever and whenever they occur. In today’s episode Martin Weiss talks with host Bill Benson about his liberation from concentration camps in 1945.
Martin (Marty) Weiss was born on January 28, 1929 in Polana, Czechoslovakia to Jacob and Golda Weiss. Jacob was a subsistence farmer and a meat distributor, and Golda managed their orthodox Jewish household and raised their nine children. Czechoslovakia had become an independent democracy after World War I, and the Weiss family were proud ...
