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Max Rodrigues Garcia
Max Rodrigues Garcia
Our father, Max Rodrigues Garcia, came to the United States with only hopes and dreams after surviving nearly three years as a prisoner within the Holocaust. He ultimately lived the “American Dream” and with our mother, Pat (1927-2002), they passed those hopes and dreams to us, David (1957), Tania (1960) and Michelle (1961).
Max was born in Amsterdam, June 28, 1924. He never again saw his parents, Elias and Rosetta, nor his sister Sippora, after they were murdered in 1942 and 1943. He was a prisoner of four different German concentration camps, including 18 months in Auschwitz as well as two death marches. When he was liberated by the 3rd Cavalry (U.S. Army) from a concentration camp, Ebensee, in the Austrian Alps on May 6, 1945, he was close to death but he found the strength to attach him