Siegmund Siegreich
Born in 1924 in Upper-Silesia. Siegmund Siegreich was a member of a Zionist Youth Movement, “Hanoar Hatzioni”; he attended Boarding School until the war broke out. Enslaved in German labour camps enduring, four years of abuse. By the end of 1942, 169 members of his family were exterminated. After liberation he married Hanka, and their daughter Evelyne was born. Active with “Bricha”, smuggling survivors out of Europe into Palestine, he later worked at the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw.
Migrating to Israel with his young family, he joined the IDF attending the Officers Academy. Their second daughter Aviva was born. In 1971 the family moved to Australia where Siegmund established a successful business. At the age of 82, he found the courage to write his memoires.
