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In April of 2019, Abe accompanied a group of high school students on a visit to the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum]] in Washington, DC.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://abc11.com/community-events/holocaust-survivor-to-visit-national-museum-with-high-school-students/5227753/|title=Holocaust survivor, 90, makes first visit to US Holocaust Memorial Museum with Triangle students|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=|url-status=live}}</ref> Though he had long been a member of the museum, this was his first visit there. While at the museum, Abe went to the cattle car on the third floor and narrated his liberation for his great-grandchildren and the other students on the trip. |
In April of 2019, Abe accompanied a group of high school students on a visit to the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum]] in Washington, DC.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://abc11.com/community-events/holocaust-survivor-to-visit-national-museum-with-high-school-students/5227753/|title=Holocaust survivor, 90, makes first visit to US Holocaust Memorial Museum with Triangle students|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=|url-status=live}}</ref> Though he had long been a member of the museum, this was his first visit there. While at the museum, Abe went to the cattle car on the third floor and narrated his liberation for his great-grandchildren and the other students on the trip. |
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In late May, Abe gave a talk for nearly two hours<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGtHXN3PrE|title=Holocaust Survivor Abe Piasek|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> at a church in Faison, NC. |
In late May of 2019, Abe gave a talk for nearly two hours<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGtHXN3PrE|title=Holocaust Survivor Abe Piasek|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> at a church in Faison, NC. |
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Abe passed away on January 15, 2020. |
Abe passed away on January 15, 2020. |
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Revision as of 12:29, 17 January 2020
Abe Piasek[1], a survivor of four death camps in Poland and Germany, shared his story of survival with thousands of students and people throughout North Carolina at schools, universities, libraries, and military bases. At the end of the war, Abe survived because the train he was on, which he later learned was bound for Dachau, was bombed by allied forces.[2]
Abe was born in Bialobrzegi, Poland, in 1928, and came to the United States in August of 1947. After World War II ended, Abe spent two years in displaced persons camps in Germany. He lived for 28 years in Connecticut, where he learned English, met his wife of 60 years, Shirley, and learned to be a baker. In 1975, he moved to California, and in 1991, he retired to Florida. A few years after the movie Schindler's List came out, Abe was interviewed by the USC Shoah Foundation in 1995.[3] He slowly began, after more than 40 years of silence[4], to tell his story to groups of students.
In April of 2019, Abe accompanied a group of high school students on a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.[5] Though he had long been a member of the museum, this was his first visit there. While at the museum, Abe went to the cattle car on the third floor and narrated his liberation for his great-grandchildren and the other students on the trip.
In late May of 2019, Abe gave a talk for nearly two hours[6] at a church in Faison, NC.
Abe passed away on January 15, 2020.
- ^ "Holocaust survivor, Abe Piasek, dies at 91 in Raleigh". ABC News. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "ABE SURVIVES A DEATH TRAIN" (PDF). North Carolina Council on the Holocaust. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ^ "USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Abram Piasek".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "After 40 years of silence, Raleigh Holocaust survivor's story now inspires others". CBS.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Holocaust survivor, 90, makes first visit to US Holocaust Memorial Museum with Triangle students".
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Holocaust Survivor Abe Piasek".
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