Phil was born in 1927 in Czeladz, Poland. Early in the war, Phil worked in a furniture factory that had been taken over by Nazis. In 1942, he was deported to Markstadt, a subcamp of the Gross Rosen concentration camp in Germany, where he worked in a munitions factory. He was then transferred to Fünfteichen, another subcamp of Gross Rosen. As the Russians approached Germany from the East, the camp authorities ordered all inmates to evacuate. Phil hid and stayed in the camp until liberation. After liberation, he returned to Poland and reunited with his sister and uncle. Phil settled in the United States in 1950, where he married and raised two children. 

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Dana Schwartz

Friday, August 11 at 11:30 am

Dana Schwartz was born in 1935 in Lvov, Poland. At the start of the war, Lvov initially fell under Soviet occupation, but in July 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and occupied the city. The entire Jewish population was forced into the Lvov Ghetto, but Dana's father was able to organize false papers identifying Dana and her mother as Polish non-Jews. The two escaped from the ghetto, and survived the rest of the war by hiding in various towns. After liberation, they immigrated to the United States where Dana married and raised three sons. For decades, Dana has been very active in both the Shoah Foundation and in the leadership of Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.