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NETTIE ADELSBERG

MARTIN LOWENBERG

Nettie Adelsberg was 14 and living
in Poland when the Nazis took con-
trol of her city. For a time, Polish
people she knew hid her, but later
she was discovered and taken to
Bergen-Belsen.
Her teen years were spent doing
forced labor in the fields. "We did
all kinds of work, and it was very,
very hard," she says. "I kept hoping
God would help me."
By the time the English liberated
the camp, Adelsberg was the only
one in her family of four to survive.
She would ultimately learn she was
one of the few from her city to ',sur-
vive.
Adelsberg remembers watching the
English round up the Nazis and how
scared the Germans became. A man
she knew before the war went look-
ing for her, and soon after, at age 20,
she married him.
"We decided to go to the United
States to settle, and we moved to
Detroit because my brother-in-law
was there," says Adelsberg, now a
widow, mother of two and grand-
mother of four living in Southfield.
Adelsberg, who enjoys participat-
ing in the exercise program and spe-
cial activities at the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park,
thinks the portrait exhibit is a good
idea because it will get people talk-
ing about the Holocaust, and she
wants everyone to remember. Her
personal memories recently intensi-
fied as she learned of the terrorist
attacks.
"I think it's going to be all right
because the United States will take
care of the terrorists," she says.

Seeing his house burn to the ground
because of Nazi arsonists is an early
memory for Martin Lowenberg, from
Germany, whose family was taken in
by relatives and friends. •
Before they could rebuild, his
father's business license was taken
away, and the family rented a small
apartment; the only work allowed for
his father to do was ditch digging.
Although some members of his fami-
ly were able to escape to Palestine and
the United States, Lowenberg was
taken to various camps — even prison
for a time — and ultimately on a death
march to forced labor with his sister.
They were made to sort bricks from
a bombed building and rummaged for
food in garbage.
Lowenberg was a youngster during
the destruction
Kristallnacht.
"I was young an
d and full of hope, and that
kept me going," says Lowenberg, who
lives in Southfield. "My youth was shat-
tered, but where there's life, there's hope."
Lowenberg's hope for survival was
realized in a Nazi agreement that sent
him and his sister to Sweden, where
they were liberated and then able to
move to the United States. Here, he
met his wife, raised three daughters
and enjoys many grandchildren.
While Lowenberg reels from the
terrorist attacks, he believes that there
are big differences between the recent
tragedies and the tragedy of the
Holocaust. The numbers, in years of
suffering and lives lost, were bigger
during World War II.
"The exhibit shows that we must
always remember who we are and
what we are and how people are able
to continue," he says. ❑

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