Survivor from Poland | Auschwitz, Buchewald

Joseph Poslun was born in Poland in 1927. He was deported from the Sosnowiec Ghetto to Auschwitz and then moved to Buchenwald. He was sent as a mechanic to Sachsenhausen but worked there moving stones from one place to another. More than half of the 400 workers died in 2 weeks. He was on the death march from Gross-Rosen to Buchenwald, and in two weeks of walking in the snow, only a few hundred of 4,000 survived. He was liberated from hospital in Sachsenhausen camp. He survived because he was with Rothchild, a friend from one of the wealthiest families in France. For two years, he worked with survivors in Brocha and smuggled over 250.000 people from Communist countries to the west. In 1948, he volunteered with the Israeli Army, where he met his wife. He came to the United States in 1960 with one daughter, and he had only one sister to survive the Holocaust.