A Life Full of Mazal - The Gucia and Szlamek Melnik Story

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Family Sounds

PI Media

10 episodes

1 month ago

Family Sounds is dedicated to preserving your history by creating the stories you want to hear. We strive to perfect the art of storytelling with high-quality audio productions that engage and educate listeners and maintain a lasting impact.

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A Life Full of Mazal - The Gucia and Szlamek Melnik Story

Family Sounds

54 minutes

2 years ago

A Life Full of Mazal - The Gucia and Szlamek Melnik Story

Gucia Fried and Szlamek Melnik were born in 1918 in the Polish town of Pultusk. There they went to school, the shtiebel and local jewish youth groups, where they met and fell in love.
A few months after the Holocaust began, they were married in the Siauliai ghetto in Lithuania. It was from this unholy place that they were taken, in 1944, to separate concentration camps and it was there that they last saw their two year old son Moshe.
But despite their harsh beginnings the Melniks’ life was a life of perseverance, happiness and joy. Through sheer willpower, determination and optimism, the Melniks began their life anew in Melbourne Australia, where they raised their two daughters Ray and Betty, and built a small knitwear empire.
This is their story.