(Photo By: Courtesy of the family and Auschwitz Museum)
By: Jenni Frazer - October 2, 2020
After some extraordinary detective work by the Auschwitz Museum, a briefcase at the memorial has been linked to a child’s shoe which was identified in July as belonging to a little boy called Amos Steinberg. The briefcase, according to the museum, almost certainly belonged to the boy’s father — and he survived the Holocaust.
Amos Steinberg was born in Prague on June 26, 1938. On August 10, 1942, Amos, his father Ludwig (who also went by Ludvik), and his mother Ida were first imprisoned in Theresienstadt, and then deported from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz.
Documents show that mother and son arrived at the concentration camp on October 4, 1944, and were almost certainly murdered in a gas chamber on the same day.
Read More: Times of Israel