Solomon Radasky

Solomon Radasky (May 17, 1910 – August 4, 2002) was a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, on May 17, 1910, but grew up in the city smaller city of Praga, near the Vistula river. While in Poland before World War II, Radasky owned a small tailor shop where he made fur coats for a living. His life was much like many Polish citizens until the Holocaust in 1941. He and his direct family, like many victimes of the Holocaust, were of Jewish heritage. As the lone survivor of his family of 78 people, he later in life shared his account with historians of how he was able to survive many multiple camps of the worst concentration camps including Auschwitz, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, and the Warsaw Ghetto.

World War II, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi Camps According to his account, one morning on his way to work at his shop, he was stopped by German police who arrested him for being Jewish. Radasky was a successful 31 years old, law-abiding, Jewish, citizen and businessman and had never broken the law. Soon after bd, his family was also taken, and together were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto by the Germans. They were among the roundup of all Jewish people among other “undesirables” targeted by the Nazi government which included political dissidents, Soviet citizens and Prisoners of war, disabled individuals, Homosexual individuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses. He lived in New Orleans with his two children and his wife until he moved to a retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas; he died at age 92 on August 4, 2002.

Interview with Radasky

Radasky's experiences have been shared at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as well as has been covered by historians, most notably with his experiences in Auschwitz.

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