
Herman Gluck Born March 11, 1926 is mother perished with his Ujora, Romania younger brother and sisters in Herman grew up in a Auschwitz where they were Jewish community in Hgassed to death. His older brother was shot Transylvania, Romania during a death march towards the end of with his parents and six the war. His father died of starvation in siblings. His father was Germany. Rifkah survived Auschwitz, a a whiskey maker and taster for the local factory labor camp, Barons. Herman was the fourth child of the and Bergen Belsen. seven. Of his family only he, one older sister, Herman and Wilhelm Rifkah, and an survived Mauthausen. older brother, Wilhelm, Entrance to Mauthausen survived the Concentration Camp, Holocaust. Austria “Shoe Memorial in Budapest, Hungary” produced by James Ayala The Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian: Nyilaskeresztes Párt – Hungarista Mozgalom, literally “Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement”) n 1942, at 16 years old he moved to a Jewish community in Budapest, Hungary to work as a machinist. His Ifather told him, regarding anti-Semitism, “to be worried more from the Hungarians, than the Germans.” Herman took a job in a garage led by the Gestapo. In 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and Herman was sent to Mauthausen Arrow concentration camp in Austria to work Cross Party – in a stone mine. The Allies liberated wikipedia them in 1945. Herman reflected on the time the Nyilas fter the war, Herman and surviving (the Arrow Cross), a Hungarian Armed siblings were reunited, and moved Hitler force, came to the garage where he from a DP camp in Germany to was working for the Gestapo. AIsrael in 1948. He became a chef in the “The Nyilas demanded that the SS Israeli army. In 1956 he moved to Brazil, (Gestapo), hand over all the Jews. married and had 2 children. He moved to the The SS officer asked, “Why do you USA in 1970 where he was a chef at Corky want the Jews?” and the Nyilas and Lenny’s in Cleveland, Ohio. Today, Herman said, “I want to kill them.” The SS lives in Delray officer said, “You take one more Beach, FL. He has step and I will kill you. These Jews 2 children, 13 grandchildren, are working for us, do not touch 1 great grandchild, them.” Herman said, “I owe my life and another on to the Gestapo that day, otherwise I the way! wouldn’t be talking with you now.” .
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