Shimshon Zelig (Zoltan) Ellenbogen
Nyirbator, Hungary
Shimshon Zelig Ellenbogen was born the second time, on the same Hebrew date on April 11, 1945, when the United States Army liberated him from Buchenwald. He survived the death march from Auschwitz, had his toes amputated in Buchenwald and was saved by a Czech doctor. His parents and only two of his five siblings survived.
He married Miriam Davidowitz in 1951 and moved to Baltimore in 1952. He often remarked that the biggest revenge he had on Hitler, YM"S, was his family. In the camps he would never have imagined that he would live long enough to get married, have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He thanked G-d for allowing him to transmit his Jewish heritage to the next generations.