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The Rest of the Family What could be worse then being only a young man at the age of 23 having to go through the horrors of concentration camps? For Solomon Radasky it was worse because he had to go through the camps alone, with most of his family already killed before he was even deported from the Warsaw ghetto. Solomon entered the ghetto with his wife and child of two and a half years, only to have them taken from him in a selection. There were 78 people in his family, yet he was the only survivor. At age 30 in January of 1941, Radasky was forced to clear the train tracks of the heavy snow that was piling on the ground. It was a shock when he came home to discover his mother and sister dead. In the ghetto, it was mandatory for all Jews to give up any valuable items or fur, so when they came to his families door, and his mother failed to have anything of value to give the soldiers, she and her daughter (Radasky's sister) were shot on the spot. A little over a year later tragedy struck again, as Radasky's father was spotted by a Jewish policemen buying smuggled bread from a boy, and later reported to and killed by the Germans. With his parents gone Radasky was already in a great deal of pain, but the beginning of deportation on July 22nd in 1942 only made matters worse. Solomon's remaining two brothers and two sisters were sent to Treblinka, a massive extermination camp, where over 800,000 thousand Jews were killed. Solomon Radasky had lost his whole family and now, he had to go on and face the terror that awaited him. ALONE. Back to Main Page