Yoachim Gerstl was born on June 27, 1936. He was Jewish, born in Veľké Kapušany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Yoachim Gerstl was born on June 27, 1936. He was Jewish, born in Veľké Kapušany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). His parents were Elisabeth and Nathan Gerstl. The Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, and soon after Yoachim’s family fled to Uzhgorod, Hungary (now Ukraine). They had a few happy years in Uzhgorod, but those ended on March 19, 1944, when the Nazis occupied Hungary. That May and June, all ten thousand of Uzhgorod’s Jews were deported to Auschwitz, where almost all were killed. Yoachim and his parents were killed on June 5, 1944. Yoachim was not yet seven years old. May his memory be a blessing. REMEMBER YOACHIM GERSTL. #holocaust #shoah #wwii #ww2 #jewish #neveragain #neverforget less
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