Oral History Interview with Holocaust Survivor Helen Greenspun

June 15th, 2010 oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Helen Garfinkel Greenspun selected by Orlando Magazine, January 2010, as a "Good Neighbor Who Gives from the Heart" for her contribution to the Central Florida community.

Originally from Chmielnik, Poland, Helen Garfinkel came to the United States in 1949.

She and her husband, Joe Greenspun, also a Holocaust survivor, moved to Orlando in 1973 with their daughters, Pauline and Rita.

In this three part interview, Ms. Greenspun details her experiences in Skarzysko, Chestochowa, Bergen-Belsen, Burgau, Turkheim, Dachau, and Allach concentration camps and the miracles that sustained her during those years.

Helen Garfinkel and her sisters, Sonia, Regina, and Bela were liberated from Allach concentration camp by American soldiers on April 29, 1945.

Air Force Colonel Joseph A. Rosalia of Orlando, Florida was part of the American forces that day and documented the prison conditions with photos which he donated to the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida.

Helen Greenspun's parents, Kalman and Sara Garfinkel, her brother, Fishel, and her sister, Rachel, were gassed at Treblinka, Poland in October - November 1942 along with other Chmielnik Jewish citizens deemed unfit for labor.

Suzan E. Hagstrom, former financial reporter for The Orlando Sentinel, wrote a book about the Garfinkel family, Sara's Children: The Destruction of Chmielnik, detailing the extraordinary survival of Helen and her four siblings: Bela, Nathan, Regina, and Sonia.

Ms. Greenspun has been volunteering with the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida since 1981 in an effort to speak for the girls who never made it.

She has returned to visit her place of birth, Chmielnik, but now calls Florida home and says, "America is the best country in the world!"

June 15th, 2010 oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Helen Garfinkel Greenspun selected by Orlando Magazine, January 2010, as a "Good Neighbor Who Gives From the Heart" for her contribution to the Central Florida community.

Originally from Chmielnik, Poland, Helen Garfinkel came to the United States in 1949.

She and her husband, Joe Greenspun, also a Holocaust survivor, moved to Orlando in 1973 with their daughters Pauline and Rita.

In this three part interview, Ms. Greenspun details her experience in Skarzysko, Chestochowa, Bergen-Belsen, Burgau, Turkheim. Dachau, and Allach concentration camps and the miracles that sustained her during those years.

Helen Garfinkel and her sisters, Sonia, Regina, and Bela were liberated from Allach concentration camp by American soldiers on April 29th, 1945. 

Air Force Colonel Joseph A. Rosalia of Orlando, Florida was part of the American forces that day and documented the prison conditions with photos which he donated to the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida.

Helen Greenspun's parents, Kalman and Sara Garfinkel, her brother, Fishel, and her sister, Rachel, were gassed at Treblinka, Poland in October - November 1942 along with other Chmielnik Jewish citizens deemed unfit for labor.

Suzan E. Hagstrom, former financial reporter for The Orlando Sentinel, wrote a book about the Garfinkel family, Sara's Children: The Destruction of Chmielnik, detailing the extraordinary survivial of Helen and her four siblings: Bela, Nathan, Regina, and Sonia.

Ms. Greenspun has been volunteering with the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida since 1981 in an effort to speak for the girls who never made it.

She has returned to visit her place of birth, Chmielnik, but now calls Florida home and says, "America is the best country in the world!" 

June 15th, 2010 oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Helen Garfinkel Greenspun selected by Orlando Magazine, January 2010, as a "Good Neighbor Who Gives From the Heart" for her contribution to the Central Florida community.

Originally from Chmielnik, Poland, Helen Garfinkel came to the United States in 1949.

She and her husband, Joe Greenspun, also a Holocaust survivor moved to Orlando in 1973 with their daughters, Pauline and Rita.

In this three part interview, Ms. Greenspun details her experiences in Skarzysko, Chestochowa, Bergen-Belsen, Burgau, Turkheim, Dachau, and Allach concentration camps and the miracles that sustained her during those years.

Helen Garfinkel and her sisters, Sonia, Regina, and Bela were liberated from Allach concentration camp by American soldiers on April 29th, 1945.

Air Force Colonel Joseph A. Rosalia of Orlando, Florida was part of the American forces that day and documented the prison conditions with photos which he donated to the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida.

Helen Greenspun's parents, Kalman and Sara Garfinkel, her brother, Fishel, and her sister, Rachel, were gassed at Treblinka, Poland in October - November 1942 along with other Chmielnik citizens deemed unfit for labor.

Suzan E. Hagstrom, former financial reporter for The Orlando Sentinel, wrote a book about the Garfinkel family, Sara's Children: The Destruction of Chmielnik, detailing the extraordinary survival of Helen and her four siblings: Bela, Nathan, Regina, and Sonia.

Ms. Greenspun has been volunteering with the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida since 1981 in an effort to speak for the girls who never made it.

She has returned to visit her place of birth, Chmielnik, but now calls Florida home and says, "America is the best country in the world!"