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…