The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Issue date: 3/3/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Courtesy of Andre Mark Andre Mark, far right, back row, sits with his family in 1943, when his father returned for a short visit from a Hungarian military labor camp in Russia. This is the last time that the family would ever be together. His mother, brother and sisters died at Auschwitz. Andre never saw his father again, but it is assumed that he died at a labor camp. Mark is an advocate for raising awareness about the Holocaust.

For Walter Plywaski and Doris Fedrid the passage of time has not dimmed the horrors of the past, and while the Holocaust destroyed millions of lives, the two have survived, carrying the weight of the nightmarish memories for over 60 years.

Plywaski and his family were forced by the Nazis into the Lodz Ghetto in Poland when he was 10 years old. After living four years under constant German control, Plywaski was moved to the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps, where the life expectancy was only two weeks.

Fedrid's story took a different path through the brutality of the Holocaust. At age two Fedrid developed rheumatoid fever and lost her hearing as a result.

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