Holocaust Survivor Found Through Genealogy

Posted by admin on Nov 2, 2011

With the Holocaust looming, Harry Stuart’s parents left Vienna and arrived in Australia in 1938. His father’s first cousin was not so fortunate. He left Krakow briefly and could not get back into Poland after the Nazi occupation. And despite having money and connections, he was unable to get his family out of the country.

His wife was killed by the Nazis and their daughter, who was sent to a labor camp, perished in the Allied bombing of Dresden. But a young son was sheltered by a Polish Roman Catholic woman. He was reunited with his father in New York after the war.

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