Shattered Glass
Welcome to my family history podcast. This series is a collection of stories about my family’s experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.
The Zachariasz family in 1922. Łódź, Poland.
Top row: Renia, Srólek, Eva
Middle row: Henryk (father), Estera (mother, pregnant with Jurek), Estera’s mother, Genia
Bottom row: Salek, Romek, Leon
Bela + Leon | Part 5
George and Sy learn the truth about their parents’ wartime experiences, and George reflects on the darkness that comes along with being the child of Holocaust survivors.
Bela + Leon | Part 4
Leon and Bela settle into life in the U.S., and Sy adjusts to life as a child refugee.
Bela + Leon | Part 3
Leon and Bela spend the remainder of the war in Uzbekistan then arrive in the U.S.
Bela + Leon | Part 1
Leon Zachariasz and Bela Lasocka grow up in Łódź, Poland in the 1920s and 1930s.
Family Tree
This family tree does not include all of my relatives — only those referred to in the podcast series.
| Bela Lasocka (1919 - 1998) | Sy (b. 1945) | ||||||||||||||||
| Members of the Zachariasz family | |||||||||||||||||
| Leon Zachariasz (1915 - 1999) | George (b. 1955) | Family members speaking on the podcast | |||||||||||||||
| Sam (b. 1998) | |||||||||||||||||
| Srólek Zachariasz (1905 - 1942) | Nancy (b. 1957) | ||||||||||||||||
| Renia Zachariasz (1908 - 1943) | |||||||||||||||||
| Henryk Zachariasz (1879 - 1941) | |||||||||||||||||
| Romek Zachariasz (1920 - 1945) | |||||||||||||||||
| Jurek Zachariasz (1923 - 2001) | |||||||||||||||||
| Estera Dobraczynska (1886 - 1942) | |||||||||||||||||
| Gail (b. 1956) | |||||||||||||||||
| Nina Tyberg (1926 - 2004) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sol Zachariasz (1917 - 2005) | |||||||||||||||||
| Esther (b. 1956) | |||||||||||||||||
| Irene Vogel (1923 - 2005) | |||||||||||||||||
| Judy (b. 1943) | |||||||||||||||||
| Chaim Mayer Friedman (1921 - 1944) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sara (b. 1954) | |||||||||||||||||
| Eva Zachariasz (1911 - 1979) | |||||||||||||||||
| Yaakov (1951 - 1994) | |||||||||||||||||
| Simmon Abraham Frydel (1911 - 1977) | |||||||||||||||||
| Frances (b. 1949) | |||||||||||||||||
| Genia Zachariasz (1912 - 2006) | |||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth (b. 1947) | |||||||||||||||||
| Idel Biderman (1911 - 1995) | |||||||||||||||||
| Laja (1937 - 1942) | |||||||||||||||||
| Idel's first wife (died during WWII) | |||||||||||||||||