[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6721]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               MARKING THE HOLOCAUST DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE

  (Ms. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, this week marks the Holocaust Days of 
Remembrance. In 1938, there was a family that lived in Vienna, Austria. 
The father was a successful tea merchant. The boys were both talented 
and bright. And when the Anschluss came and the Nazis arrived, the 
younger son watched as his mother signed away all of their possessions.
  The mother made her way to the United States, because she had 
relatives here. The older of the two boys was smuggled out of Austria 
in the trunk of a car. The younger boy was taken to an orphanage, a 
boy's orphanage in Belgium.
  The father, Sigmund, was not able to obtain passage, as the boys 
eventually did to the United States, and he ended up in the free city 
of Shanghai, where he reestablished his tea business. He kept writing 
to his wife, Rose, over the ensuing 2 years, and then she stopped 
hearing from him. It turned out that Sigmund Haimovitz had died in 
Shanghai of malaria.
  His younger son, Henry, was my father-in-law, and I want to remember 
Sigmund Haimovitz and his brave family and all those who perished as a 
result of the terrible events of the Holocaust.

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