Melvin Federbush's Holocaust Survivor Stories

Melvin Federbush

Life before, during and after the holocaust with Buchenwald survivor, Melvin Federbush.

  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Mel Federbush - The Ultimate Inteview: Hour Seven
    Questions from cousin Stephanie Altman Singer, how Mel and Elsa met, cousin Shirley Ikler Gordon calls in. PLUS, questions from students and much more. (1 hr. 4 min.)
    3 February 2014, 12:36 am
  • 58 minutes 9 seconds
    Mel Federbush: - The Ultimate Interview - Hour Six
    The deportations to Czestochowa, Buchenwald and Triglitz. The Russians occupy Germany, pillage and rape. Mel poses as a Nazi officer's assistant, unloading dead bodies, and his escape from a train to Buchenwald. Impersonating a Polish farmer named Jahn Worchakovsky and finally the liberation. More to come in Hour Seven. Thanks for listening.
    11 December 2013, 2:30 am
  • 58 minutes
    MEL FEDERBUSH: THE ULTIMATE INTERVIEW - HOUR FIVE
    Harrowing details in this episode. Mel reveals the intricate story of how his parents and sisters were killed when the war broke out in 1939. The bombing of his village. Seeing his first dead body. Working for the Nazis. Falsely arrested and tortured. Deportations to Sobibor and and Treblinka. Much more.
    6 December 2013, 2:07 am
  • 51 minutes 29 seconds
    Mel Federbush: The Ultimate Interview - Hour Four
    Before the war: Dreaming of being an architect,remembering his parents Feige Feldman-Federbush and her sisters, Rachel, Perl and her husband Laizer in Garvolin, Gutche in Warsaw, Leah Rosenberg, their children all named Menachem Mendel and Simcha. His grandmother, Reizl Gelman-Feldman and her sister's daughters Nachumah and Sadie - (their mothers were sisters of Mel's grandmother.) Plus, Famous songs from Deblin: Modzitzer Neggunim, Mel's Bar Mitzvah in the local shteibl, Kristallnacht and more.
    26 November 2013, 1:30 am
  • 51 minutes 44 seconds
    Mel Federbush: - The Ultimate Interview - Hour Three
    Holocaust deniers, Buchenwald: Where the survivors went after the liberation. Family life before the war. Rachel: Mel's mother's youngest sister in Turobin, Mel's twin sisters (Toba, Sheindl), living in two rooms. Mel's brother Henoch who did not survive, Mel tries to ditch cheder, living together with non-Jews, communism vs. zionism. Street games and dancing in Deblin. Artwork discovered in Germany in 2013.
    22 November 2013, 2:35 am
  • 12 minutes 14 seconds
    Mel Federbush: The Ultimate Interview - Hour 2
    Before the war. Godl's occupation Reizel Gelman, Turobin, Chuma and Sadie, the meeting of Levi Godl Federbush and Faige Feldman, Rachel Feldman, Bar Mitzvah, Kristallnacht
    5 November 2013, 9:07 pm
  • 53 minutes 47 seconds
    Mel Federbush: The Ultimate Interview, Hour One
    Buchenwald Survivor, 90 year old Melvin Federbush is interviewed by his son, Greg. Included are student questions from all over the world. Recorded November, 2013 via Skype from Los Angeles and New York and broadcast LIVE globally on TalkRadioX.
    5 November 2013, 3:41 am
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