An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Joseph Alexander

9346-9368 East University Drive,Los Angeles CA 91325

22 February, 2023

Description

Born in Poland in 1922, Alexander was sent by the Nazis to 12 different concentration camps, including Dachau and Auschwitz. He survived a Nazi “death march.” The rest of his family (father, mother, sisters and brothers) was not so lucky. They all died at the hands of the Nazis. According to Alexander, he worked for his captors laying railroad tracks, digging potatoes and building dams, streets, sewers and roofs. He survived on bread, coffee, and soup, plus occasionally extra food from the civilians he worked with. American troops liberated him in 1945. He immigrated to the United States in 1949 where he married and had two children.