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My Voice: Harry Olmer: My Revenge on Hitler Is My Family

My Voice: Harry Olmer: My Revenge on Hitler Is My Family

The Fed

Paperback

Series: My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors

General World History

ISBN10: 1526192373
ISBN13: 9781526192370
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Harry Olmer was born in 1927 in Sosnowiec, Poland. He and his five siblings had a happy childhood, staying with their grandmother Rochel Leah every summer in Charsznica, a rural area surrounded by woods.

When war broke out, the Germans took over Sosnowiec. In 1942, Harry was taken to a concentration camp in Plaszów, working 12-hour shifts at a railway embankment on a small cup of coffee and lump of bread.

Gruelling labour at Buchenwald and Schlieben left Harry dreadfully ill and liberation couldn't come soon enough. In 1945, he came to England as one of the 'Windermere Boys'. Despite arriving in the UK with nothing, Harry built a successful life, studying dentistry at Glasgow University, marrying Margaret Lunzer, having four children and eight grandchildren and retiring as a dentist at 86.

Harry's book is part of the My Voice book collection, a stand-alone project of The Fed, the leading Jewish social care charity in Manchester, dedicated to preserving the life stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. The oral history, which is recorded and transcribed, captures their entire lives from before, during and after the war years. The books are written in the words of the survivor so that future generations can always hear their voice. The My Voice book collection is a valuable resource for Holocaust awareness and education.

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