Menachem & Fred: Thoughts and Memories of Two Brothers - Softcover

Frederick Raymes And Menachem Mayer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9653083988 ISBN 13: 9789653083981

Publisher: Yad Vashem Publications, 2011

Synopsis

Two young brothers born in Germany were deported with their family to France and held in a detention camp. Their parents were transferred to Rivesaltes. Two years later they were sent to Drancy and from there to Auschwitz. The brothers were shuffled beween orphanages in France and Switzerland, and eventually they were separated. After the war Fred made his way to the United States, and Menachem came to Israel.

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About this title

About the Author:

Frederick Raymes was born in Germany in 1929 and immigrated to the United States in 1946 where he received his degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He served in the US Army and was employed in the US Defense Industry where he headed a program that developed the Space Shuttle. He is now an active volunteer lecturing on the Holocaust in schools, and has five grandchildren. Menachem Mayer was born in Germany in 1932 and came to Israel in 1948. After his discharge from the Israel Defense Forces, he received his doctorate in education from Hebrew University. He has been the Science Teaching Superintendent and Jerusalem District superintendent and has received many awards, including the Weizmann Institute's Amos de Shalit Prize in 1977. He has ten grandchildren.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yad Vashem Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9653083988
• ISBN 13: 9789653083981
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280