My Story

Lola Taubman was born in 1925 in the Carpathian Mountains (then Czechoslovakia). Life was rich in her extended Jewish family part of a community with citizens from many backgrounds where multiple languages were common currency and education mingled with the joys and games of youth. By the late 1930s anti-Semitism grew and communities were disrupted. In May 1944 Lola and her family and the remaining Jews from her town were sent to Auschwitz. Lola was chosen to work; her immediate family perished. In January 1945 as the allies approached the Nazis moved her with many others from Auschwitz on a series of death marches. Life as a DP followed with a 4-year struggle to emigrate to the U.S. Arriving in New York in 1949 she later relocated to the Detroit area where she married Sam Taubman and raised a family. Since the mid-1990s she has been an inspiring speaker about her Holocaust experiences. Now she shares her amazing story with us in this moving narrative of her life's journey.