Shoah survivor and educator passes

Peter Reismann – a Holocaust survivor and longstanding volunteer and public speaker for the Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) and Courage to Care NSW – passed away on March 21 at the age of 86.

Reismann was born in Hungary in 1939 and, during the war, was sheltered by a Christian family who was friends with his mother.

Together with his mother, another woman and her young daughter, Reismann hid in a bunker on that family’s property, near Budapest, for almost 12 months.

His mother had become pregnant before his father was suddenly taken away, and she gave birth to a baby girl within 48 hours of liberation.

A fortnight later, Reismann’s father miraculously returned.