In 1949, Frieda and her family moved to Detroit. They came through the Jewish Federation as they had work for Frieda’s father. Detroit was where Frieda went to school and where life became more normal for her. Her dad went to work for Builders and…

In 1942, by sheer luck Frieda’s father found them. While they were in Stalingrad, they had met a woman from their same town whose husband was in the Russian army, too. She had his field address and kept in touch with him. She had nobody and stayed…

In Stalingrad, 8-year-old Frieda and her mother were put in a collective farm where the main crop was watermelons. The farm was one place where they had plenty to eat. Frieda’s mother would work on the farm and pick watermelons, while Frieda was…

On June 22nd, her father and Freida were both in bed listening to music on the radio when her mother came running in and told her father that the Germans invaded Russia. Her father turned the radio to Moscow, which was saying that on the morning of…

Frieda Allweiss was born as Freida Schiller on May 21st in 1933, in a small town called Chortkow, Poland, which is now Ukraine. Freida was an only child and her mother Sarah and her father Marcus both had extended families who lived in the same…

In 1951, when Sidney was 20 he moved to the United States of America to join his sister Lola and her family. To become a citizen of the United States he had to go to the Embassy in England to be asked a few questions. One of the questions was to…

In 1946, when Sidney was fourteen he began to go back to school at the Bunce Court Boarding School. Sidney knew enough English to follow along and ask questions about what was going on in class. He struggled with schooling at the start because of…

As Germany was losing the war, the German Guards were ordered to destroy any evidence of the German’s crimes at the camp. They lined up all the prisoners onto cars to be sent elsewhere. One day before Buchenwald was liberated by the Americans,…

In 1944, when Sidney was 13 his father and brother were transferred to a new concentration camp called Buchenwald in Germany. During this time, Sidney was alone and had to change his mentality to be able to survive on his own. All that he could rely…

In November 1944, rumors began to spread that many of the Jews would be evacuated again to another camp. This brought tremendous fear among the surviving Jews at the labor camp. Within less than a month Sidney would turn 13 years of age and be a Bar…