ID card was issued by a Jewish chaplain in the U.S. army and sanctioned by city hall in Pocking, Germany on August 21, 1945. Among the information on the card is Pincus' date of liberation (May 5, 1945) and his Auschwitz prisoner number (161253). Pincus is still wearing his jacket from Auschwitz.
Photograph taken in 1925 or 1926 in Koszenica, Poland. First row, left to right (seated): great uncle (grandmother's brother-Sokol), Grandmother Fuchs, Renee, Grandfather Fuchs, Moishe Chiel Fuchs (father). Second row, left to right (standing): Aaron Fuchs, Elieazer Fuchs, Charna Fuchs, unknown, unk., unk., Simcha Fuchs.
Photograph was taken at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1951. Pincus, not yet a U.S. citizen, was drafted and served two years in the army. He was stationed in Germany for six months.
1993 photograph of house where Pincus lived before WWII and during his years in the ghetto. Because the house was located within the German-created map of the ghetto, Pincus did not have to move.
Photograph was taken in Krakow, Poland in the 1930s. Saul was hidden by a Polish family during the war but was later betrayed by them when his money ran out. He was executed near the end of the war.
Photograph taken in Koszenica, Poland in the late 1920s. Among those pictured only Renee, her Aunt Tola and youngest uncle in second row survived the war. First row, left to right: Rose Borenstain-Fuchs (mother), Renee, Grandmother Borenstain, Yitzchak Fuchs (brother), Grandfather Borenstain, rest are cousins and Rose's sister (names not known). Second row, left to right: Moishe Chiel Fuchs (father), Tola Berenstain (maternal aunt), rest are cousins and uncles (names not known).
Photograph was taken by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in January, 1947 while Renee and Michael were still aboard ship. The original photograph is in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
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