Gdynia had a small Jewish population and no private Jewish school or synagogue, Jack attended the public school, which was toward Catholicism. At Christmas, he joined his Catholic friends going house to house singing carols.
On Passover, he remembers eating matzos(A Crisp biscuit of unleavened bread), and being fitted, along with his brother and sister, for new clothes and shoes. Jack was 12 when his parents hired a bar mitzvah tutor. His father, Mejloch Mandelbaum, had been drafted to serve in the Baltic and stayed in the region to start a fish cannery. His father wanted to immigrate to Australia but did not in order to avoid a six-month separation from his wife.
The Mandelbaums’ large two-bedroom apartment, which was in the most prominent spot in the city, was a 10-minute walk from the beach. The housekeeper arrived each morning in time to bring in still-warm milk delivered fresh from the farm. Jack entered bicycle races and collected stamps from foreign consulates in town. In the cold winters, he and his siblings warmed themselves under down bedspreads his mother heated against a coal-burning tile oven.
On Passover, he remembers eating matzos(A Crisp biscuit of unleavened bread), and being fitted, along with his brother and sister, for new clothes and shoes. Jack was 12 when his parents hired a bar mitzvah tutor. His father, Mejloch Mandelbaum, had been drafted to serve in the Baltic and stayed in the region to start a fish cannery. His father wanted to immigrate to Australia but did not in order to avoid a six-month separation from his wife.
The Mandelbaums’ large two-bedroom apartment, which was in the most prominent spot in the city, was a 10-minute walk from the beach. The housekeeper arrived each morning in time to bring in still-warm milk delivered fresh from the farm. Jack entered bicycle races and collected stamps from foreign consulates in town. In the cold winters, he and his siblings warmed themselves under down bedspreads his mother heated against a coal-burning tile oven.
Jack Mandelbaum grew up in a Jewish home in the Baltic Sea port city of Gyndia, Poland. Jack was only 14 when Hitler invaded Poland from there he was sent to many different camps the one he said was the worst was “Gross-Rosen.” By the time he turned 18 the war ended, then when he went to the doctors they told him that he was on 5’7 and only weighted 80 pounds. He never really ate a lot when he was at all the camp because the camps he was at had so little food.
From there he decided that he wanted to start he’s new life in America in 1946. He traveled with he’s uncle then later stay with is close friend Isak Federman in Kansas City, Jack found the Midwest center for the Holocaust education in Overland Park, Kansas in 1993.
From there he decided that he wanted to start he’s new life in America in 1946. He traveled with he’s uncle then later stay with is close friend Isak Federman in Kansas City, Jack found the Midwest center for the Holocaust education in Overland Park, Kansas in 1993.