Mendel Good was born in March,1925 in Nowy-Sacz, Poland, which was a very religious and mostly Jewish city. He had a happy family and it was big and close. Mendel had two brothers and a little sister. After the Nazi invasion, Mendel stayed in camps from the age 14 to the age of 21. He was first sent to Rosnow where he was able to escape. Mendel also survived the Nowy-Sacz Ghetto, a labour camp, the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. He was liberated in 1945 by the US Army and he immigrated to Canada in 1948. He now lives in Toronto at Baycrest Hospital with his wife. Crestwood students visited with Mr. Good in February of 2016 to hear his story.
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- 1. Mendel Good - Introduction.mp4
- 2. Prewar and Wartime Experiences.mp4
- 3. Anti-Semitism and Awareness of Nazism.mp4
- 4. In the Ghettos and Camps.mp4
- 5. In the Ghettos and Camps, Part 2.mp4
- 6. In the Ghettos and Camps, Part 3.mp4
- 7. The Camps; Mauthausen.mp4
- 8. Encountering the Gas Chamber.mp4
- 9. I Won't Give Adolf the Opportunity.mp4
- 10. Melk Concentration Camp.mp4
- 11. Family Photos.mp4
- 12. Ebensee and Liberation.mp4
- 13. New York.mp4
