The inexorable link between memory and love ensures that we of the second generation will always remember our loved ones, those who died and those who survived .
-Barbara Gilford, Author of “Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir”
Ignatz Buchsbaum
Author’s grandfather
d. 1937, Ostrava, CR
John (Hans) Buchsbaum
Author’s father
Escaped to England in 1939 and emigrated to America in 1941
Gretl and John (Hans)
From the left:
Sidonia, Clara, and Norbert Babad
Suzana Spitzer
Author’s cousin
d. 1942 (11 years old), Treblinka
John (Hans) and Gretl Buchsbaum
Author’s father and aunt
John (Hans) as a child with his “Lion”
Clara Buchsbaum
d. 1944, Auschwitz
Clara Buchsbaum
Author’s grandmother
One of four postcards written by Clara Buchsbaum to her brother, Norbert Babad during World War II.
Gretl and Hugo Spitzer
Author’s aunt and uncle
d. 1942, Treblinka
John (Hans) Buchsbaum
“In the end, their lives and their individual, unique selves cannot be eclipsed by the tragedy and circumstances of their deaths. They exist together in life and in death and their memory lives on in our very selves and in our souls.”