Monday night marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. ShoshBedrosian spoke to two survivors from the Bronx about how they escaped the Nazis.
"This was the first picture taken of me after the war," Helen Weiss told CBS2 as she went through a photo album.
For 100 years, Weiss has collected memories that now surround her. As she looks back on them, she says she remembers her story of how she survived the"It's really unbelievable what a person can live through, but you have to ... I mean I had no choice," she said."I was caught and taken to a concentration camp in the Slovak part and I was kept there for several days.
Weiss was born in 1922 and was a young adult when World War II began, living in Czechoslovakia. She and her sister managed to flee to Hungary, where they hid under disguise as Christians. Her mother and sister were the only two that didn't survive. "They probably died. As a matter of fact, most of them did," Curt Shulman said as he held on to a photo of his mother's family.
He was 9 years old and living in Germany in 1938. Just two weeks before World War II started, Shulman says his dad insisted on them leaving as the Nazis began a wave of violence against the Jews, called Kristallnacht. "What I remember the next day is going out and I think it may have been the first times when I was really afraid," he said"We managed to survive being Jews," Shulman said.
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