Sandy Berenbaum to be our speaker for January 24th. She was born in a DP camp and has an incredible story. Here’s some information on Sandy:

Sandy’s mother’s family suffered through pogroms, starvation, and hid in ditches during the war. Sandy’s father was a prisoner in a slave labor camp in Kommi SSR, Siberia for three years and was a kamasha macher (shoemaker). This trade saved his life, he made boots for Nazi officers.

Sandy’s family traveled on many harsh journeys. From Siberia to Kiev, Golozchino, Russia, Germany/Poland, onto Lower Silesia to Austria, to Ulm then onto the American sector in Bavaria, Germany where Sandy was born in a United Nations Relief Agency hospital located in a small Displaced Persons Camp.

From there Sandy and her family went to a larger Displaced Persons camp in Fritzlar by Kassel for the next two and a half years. Sandy and her family eventually arrived in Boston, Massachusetts on April 5, 1949. She grew up in Brooklyn, met her husband Dave and married, moved to the Philadelphia area where we made our home and raised our family.