The transcript of an interview conducted as part of the Wilmette Public Library District's Oral History program.

Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences

Salomon/Simon Bloch/Block (1819-1896) was born in Janowitz, Bohemia (now Janovice nad Uhlanvou, Czech Repubic). He married Elisabeth Fleischer and later Güta Herz. The family immigrated to the U.S. between 1866 and 1874, settling in Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico, later moving to California, Missouri, and Washington. Baruch Wollman (1755-1837) lived in Kempen-in-Posen, Prussia. Several descendants immigrated to England and the United States, many settling in New York and Kansas. Also includes descendants of Lazarus Kohn who married Rachel Abeles in Pilsen, southwestern Bohemia in 1806 as well as the family of Simon Bienenstok (1822-1887) and his wife, Helena, who emigrated from Posen (Prussia/Poland) to St. Louis, Missouri by 1864.