Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Larry Wayne - 2005

Job with Jewish Chaplain

Jewish chaplain?

Jewish chaplain, and used to conduct services with him. And he had a, a driver, Whitey--I still remember the name--a guy with long, long hair. Tall, Jewish guy, used to call him Whitey, blue eyes, you know. And he and the chaplain took like under, under their wings, you know, and like. And this, this is very interesting part of the story, you know. In 19...uh, uh, '4... '46 or so, '4... even before that, end of '45... This, this chaplain assistant Whitey took me, and I had some ??? of my life, we took with, and went to Bergen-Belsen. You know Bergen-Belsen?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And went over there and found three of my cousins of mine, four. And the one, you know Monty Milberger was one of them, I have pictures of him. Monty Milberger, uh, uh, Franka Charlupski, Rosa and another one, we got a picture of it. It's a tremendous--hold on one second

[getting pictures]. No, I, I couldn't find what I was looking for. I found something else, but not what I was looking for. We have a picture, there's a friend of mine sent me these things, my father's grave, my sister was in Poland she could never find it. And uh, this friend of mine went to Poland, he said, "You want me to do something for you?" Yeah, find my father's grave. So he did.

Wow. So the cemetery was left alone.

Found my, my father's birth, birth certificate. I... I... Imelan Weintraub, his grave.


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