Questions from cousin Stephanie Altman Singer, how Mel and Elsa met, cousin Shirley Ikler Gordon calls in. PLUS, questions from students and much more. (1 hr. 4 min.)
The deportations to Czestochowa, Buchenwald and Triglitz. The Russians occupy Germany, pillage and rape. Mel poses as a Nazi officer's assistant, unloading dead bodies, and his escape from a train to Buchenwald. Impersonating a Polish farmer
Harrowing details in this episode. Mel reveals the intricate story of how his parents and sisters were killed when the war broke out in 1939. The bombing of his village. Seeing his first dead body. Working for the Nazis. Falsely arrested an
Before the war: Dreaming of being an architect,remembering his parents Feige Feldman-Federbush and her sisters, Rachel, Perl and her husband Laizer in Garvolin, Gutche in Warsaw, Leah Rosenberg, their children all named Menachem Mendel and Simc
Holocaust deniers, Buchenwald: Where the survivors went after the liberation. Family life before the war. Rachel: Mel's mother's youngest sister in Turobin, Mel's twin sisters (Toba, Sheindl), living in two rooms. Mel's brother Henoch who di
Before the war. Godl's occupation Reizel Gelman, Turobin, Chuma and Sadie, the meeting of Levi Godl Federbush and Faige Feldman, Rachel Feldman, Bar Mitzvah, Kristallnacht
Buchenwald Survivor, 90 year old Melvin Federbush is interviewed by his son, Greg. Included are student questions from all over the world. Recorded November, 2013 via Skype from Los Angeles and New York and broadcast LIVE globally on TalkRadi