Solomon Radasky

The Warsaw Ghetto

Life is unpredictable and the future is unknown to us. We never know when it will be our last day of freedom or our last family dinner. This was definitely true for Solomon Radasky. He lived a normal life in Warsaw, Poland with his family of mother, father, three brothers and three sisters until a Nazi takeover changed that for him. Warsaw was being taken over by Nazi's closing shops killing people sending them to death camps and restricting them from their rights. The Jewish police took Solomon one day with a whole bunch of people to clear the railroads of snow.

Solomon faced lots of challenges like in January 1941, when the Germans demanded the Judenrat to collect all gold and furs in the Warsaw ghetto. Solomon's older sister and mother said that they didn't have any and they shot her and his mother. Almost a year later, Solomon's father was killed in April 1942 when he went to buy bread from kids smuggling bread into the Warsaw ghetto for his family. A Jewish policeman pointed out his father to a German for taking food from the boys, and the German shot his father in his back.

Tattoo

Solomon was working in a furrier shop when he heard the news that his sister could be in the next shop right near him. He paid a guard to see her, but when the soldier took him over in handcuffs he found his sister was not there. The next he knew, in April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. His other brother and sister were deported to concentration camps and sadly he never saw them again. On May 1, 1943 he was shot in the ankle and it hit Solomon's meat of his ankle, not the bone. A few weeks later he was taken to he was taken to Majdanek, a death camp. At Majdanek they took their clothes and gave them striped shirts and wooden shoes to wear. Because of the wounded ankle, he was taken to Majdanek a death camp and had to walk miles to without showing any sign of weakness or he would be hung. He made it to work in the concentration camp.

Solomon

Solomon Radasky is one of many to survive the holocaust but went through amazing obstacles to survive. Going through the deaths of all of his family members, the shooting of his ankle to still walk around and still work in the holocaust. This is my hero because he has been an inspiration to me to show how we can't take things in America for granted. Like being in a family because we never know when we will see each other again. Solomon's courage to do things that most people can’t think of going through to survive for their life. This man is a true hero with many of Holocaust survivors, which he should be remembered in history.