HARRY GZESH (1923-2012)
Harry Gzesh, 89, was deported from Poland and forced to work for the German war machine at the start of World War II. He survived stays at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and the Dora camp where the V-2 rockets were manufactured.
His nephew Irwin Gzesh said, "If you were young and strong and could work, you had a chance of surviving."
He was born and grew up in Lodz, Poland, where his family worked in bakeries. In 1941, he was deported to Germany as a forced laborer. He was at Bergen-Belsen when British forces liberated him in 1945.
He immediately ran over to the women's area, looking for his sisters. He later learned that except for one younger brother (of 8 siblings), his entire family had died. However, he did meet a family friend, Marsha Nisenbaum, whom he married a year later.
In 1949, he, his wife and brother came to Chicago and found work as bakers. First at the Millionaire's club in Chicago before buying the Lincolnwood Bakery in the mid-1960s at Touhy and Crawford.
The Greatest Generation. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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