Solomon Radasky-Concentration camp survivor
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Solomon Radasky was born in Warsaw. He worked in the family business of making fur coats. His parents were Jacob and Toby and he had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. One day he was roaming the streets and got caught by the police and was put to work on the clearing the snow. Meanwhile his Mom and sister got killed for not making coats for the Nazi's. He was to be deported but since he was a good worker, they let him stay for a while. A couple months after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, he got shot in the ankle by a Nazi and got deported to the Umschlagplatz. -
He was sent here to heal his wounds but only was allowed to stay for a week or so. He didnt fully heal but still got sent to Majdanek. -
When Solomon arrived in Majdanek, he met a doctor from Paris who was able to do surgery on his ankle with a knife to make it heal better. Every day he had to walk 3 kilometers to get to his work and if he was seen limping, he would of been hanged because the soldiers hanged anyone for anything. At the end of work, if there would be any dead bodies he would have to take them back to the crematorium. Someone was smoking and wouldn't admit it so an officer threatened to hang 10 people for this single act of injustice. He didn't admit so Solomon was going to be hanged first but before he could, an officer came saying that Solomon was being deported to a new camp so he was saved. He was being sent to Auschwitz. -
When Solomon arrived in Auschwitz, he was immediately sent to work on building railroad tracks. After working so much he totally collapsed on the ground from exhaustion. He was taken to the hospital not to heal but to be used as a guinea pig in experiments. Before he got tested on, he got the opportunity to get work so he took it but it was work in the coal mines where no one lasted over 2 weeks. He gave information away to an officer about other Jews in exchange for help. The officer got him out of the coal mines. He got a new job of working in the sand mines. During Sabbath a Hungarian helped him by feeding them extra food. After Sabbath, the guard was never seen again. Solomon was taken to Gross-Rosen due to nearing Americans. -
Solomon didn't give many details but he said that they weren't given much food and that some prisoners went insane so the guards killed them. After Gross-Rosen, Solomon was moved to Dachau. -
Solomon didn't go in to detail with Dachau either but he ate snow for water and he had a friend that was hardy and strong but was put in the typhus block and was never seen again. After Dachau, Solomon was put on a train to go to different towns. One stop was Tutzing. -
The Nazi's told the prisoners that there was a town over the mountain where they were going to do more work. When they crossed the mountain, they only found a Nazi ambush of machine guns shooting at them. Some died but Solomon made it back to the train. Up ahead on the rails was where the Americans bombed the rails. The Nazi's took 3 people to go clean up the bomb shells. He was eating a piece of bread and since he wasn't working, a Nazi started beating on him until he started working. When he survived the beating, Solomon knew he would survive. After that, the Americans found the train and set everyone free. He was brought to Feldafing. -
When he arrived there, Solomon found some old friends who wanted to go to Turkheim to live there so Solomon went with them. -
At Turkheim with some friends, Solomon met one of his best friends from home and together they got married and moved to America. - total distance: 685 miles (1.102 km)
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