My Father Survived the Holocaust. Today He Has Over 600 Descendants

It was 1944. A teenage boy, Aryeh Leibish Gottesman, had been rounded up by the Nazis with his mother and seven siblings. They were forced into cattle cars full of thousands of Jewish prisoners. Their destination? Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Aryeh, who went by his middle name, Leibish, and the other prisoners suffered on the train. [] The post My Father Survived the Holocaust.