Group portrait of children from the Kloster Indersdorf children's home.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 44833

Overview

Caption: Group portrait of children from the Kloster Indersdorf children's home.

Among those pictured are Erwin Farkas, Fred Stern, Walter Hahn, Berek Feldbaum, Adolph Weiss, Druecker and Michael Roth. Genia Edlerman (Jean Sugar) is seated in the center, front row. To her right is her brother, Nechemia Edlerman. Roman Kniker is directly in center (fourth person from both the left and right sides) in the front row. Niderman is the first person on the left in the second row. Herbert Hahn is seated next to him. Erwin Farkas is third from the right in the second row. Avraham Leder is the first person on the right in the third row. Naftali Steinberg is seated next to him. Walter Hahn is the first person from the left in the third row (center of picture where row begins). Michael Roth is the fourth person from the right in the last row. Jakub Kerker is the third person from the left in the last row. Ivan Kisz is the fourth person from the left in the last row. Alfons Weber is also pictured.
Date: March 1946
Locale: Kloster Indersdorf, [Bavaria; Munich] Germany ?
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Michael Roth

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Michael Roth

Keyword: CHILDREN'S HOMES CHILDREN/YOUTH DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS KLOSTER INDERSDORF
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Orphans/Children's Homes/Summer Camps -- Germany -- Kloster Indersdorf -- General

Biography: Miklos (later Michael) Roth is the son of Menyhert Roth and Regina Weinberger Roth. He was born on March 29, 1931 in Ricse, Hungary where his father was a sexton. He had three siblings: Sandor, Tibor and Imre. Following the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, he was taken to a ghetto in Satoralya. The following month he was deported to Auschwitz. His mother and two younger brothers, Tibor and Imre, were killed upon arrival. Miklos and his father stayed in Auschwitz briefly and then were sent to Kitlitztreben. They stayed there until February 1945 and then were marched to Buchenwald and Flossenbuerg. Menyhert was shot and killed on April 7 after he fell down while marching. Miklos continued on alone. Of 1500 prisoners who began the death march, Miklos was one of only 170 still alive when the prisoners arrived in Flossenbuerg on April 17. One week later, on April 23, 1945, the US army liberated Miklos at the age of 14. Miklos, who was extremely ill upon his liberation, was nursed back to health at a makeshift US army hospital. After his recuperation, Miklos went to the Kloster Indersdorf children's home and stayed there from August 1945 until May 1946. In May he came to the United States on board the Marine Flasher, sailing out of Bremerhaven Germany, to live with an aunt in the Bronx who had arrived in 1936. Of Miklos' immediate family, only Sandor, who had gone to Palestine, survived.