Questionnaire, 1946
Samuel Weiss leaves the European continent on December 14, 1947, aboard the American “SS Marine Tiger” from Bremerhaven, arriving in his new home, New York City, on December 25. He is one of the survivors of the violent acts of National Socialism. He is born in the small Czech town of Velky Sevlush on November 27, 1929. Samuel Weiss’s family is Jewish. At the age of just fourteen, Samuel Weiss, along with six younger siblings and his mother, is forcibly taken to the National Socialist concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Almost his entire family is murdered here. Samuel Weiss is deported to four other concentration camps between 1944 and 1945 before being liberated in Zittau. Only one brother survives with him, who managed to escape during the war using false papers. In America, Samuel Weiss begins a new life. Here, he not only finds his aunt, who provides a sponsorship for him, and his brother but also the love of his life: Margarita. Margarita and Samuel meet in Mexico City and marry three weeks later. Together, they move to Los Angeles to live with Samuel’s brother. They jointly start a business and become business partners. The children, Vivian and Leonard Weiss, complete the family. Samuel Weiss passes away on June 17, 2013, surrounded by his family.
