1924 - 1989

Jiří Buchbinder

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Name in US
Jiri Buchbinder
Name at Birth
Pinchas Chaim Buchbinder
Parents' Name

Mother: Sanni Cick (Cik, Tzik)

Father: Eide Buchbinder

Date of Birth
November 10, 1924
Country of Birth
Czechoslovakia
City of Birth
Brustury
City of Birth, Alternate Names

1919-1938, Czechoslovakia, Brustury [Czech]
1938-1939, Czechoslovakia, Brister [German/Yiddish]
1939-1940, Hungary, Brusztura [Hungarian]
1940-1941, Hungary, Lopukhov [Russian]
1941-1945, Hungary, Bruszturi [Ukrainian]
1945-1990, Ukraine/USSR, Brusztur [Ukrainian]
Present, Ukraine, Lopukhiv [Ukrainian]

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Jewish
Religious Identity (Postwar)
Jewish
Camp(s) / Year(s)

Auschwitz
Arrived April 29, 1942
(Tattoo #33621 on left forearm)

 

Majdanek

Member of Underground, Resistance or Partisan Group(s)

Was initially arrested in retaliation for the assassination attempt on Gestapo chief Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance in 1942

Liberated By / Date
Soviets Forces / July 23, 1944
Location of Liberation

Majdanek

DP Camp(s) / Year(s)

Funkkaserne Emigrant Assembly Center /Munich)

Feldafing / near Munich

Other Experiences

Committed suicide in the Jefferson County jail

Year / City / Ship to US
February 17, 1953 / New York City / Flight 947 Seaboard & Western Airlines
Date Moved to Alabama
circa 1987
Alabama City of Residence
Birmingham
Date of Death
September 10, 1989
City of Death
Birmingham
City of Burial / Cemetery
Birmingham / Temple Emanu-El Cemetery
Dates Lived in Alabama
circa 1987-1989