[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 69 (Thursday, April 27, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5853-S5854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        HONORING HARRY WEINROTH

 Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Mr. Harry 
Weinroth on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his liberation from 
concentration camp, April 30, 1995. Mr. Weinroth was born in Sosnowiec, 
Poland. At the age of 13 he voluntarily entered a concentration camp so 
that his father 
[[Page S5854]] would not have to. Throughout the war he was held in 
several different camps including Buchenwald, Gross Rosen, and Dachau.
  Mr. Weinroth lost both parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, three 
brothers, and one sister in the camps. Only he and one sister survived, 
whom he found after the war in Germany. Mr. Weinroth along with his 
sister came to Stamford, CT, in June 1949. He came to this country with 
nothing but his trade, watchmaking, and promptly started a small 
business repairing watches. Over the years Bedford Jewelers has grown 
into a family retail jewelry store--he works there today with his wife, 
daughter, and son.
  He still resides in Stamford, and is an active member in the 
community and his synagogue, Congregation Agudath Sholom. He married 
his wife, Luba, in 1952, whom he met at a displaced persons camp in 
Germany in 1948. They have two sons and a daughter, and three grandsons 
to carry on the family name. A 50th anniversary is worth celebrating, 
yet an anniversary that represents as much as this one should not and 
will not go unrecognized. I salute Mr. Weinroth for his courage and 
perseverance in the face of extreme hardship.


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