Born in Berlin, 1943
My German birth certificate is a testament to life, humanity, and to the spirit and courage of my dear parents.
Several years ago, I donated my birth certificate to the archives of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. It is there to confirm my birth on January 19, 1943, in Berlin, Germany. It is a permanent record to rebut present and future revisionist distortions of Jewish life during the Holocaust. Moreover, it is an official Nazi governmental record of my emergence into the German inferno, as well as my parents and my miraculous survival.
My birth certificate notes that I was born to the laborer, Walter Wilhelm Israel Abraham, of the Mosaic (Jewish) faith and to the laborer, Ruth Sara Abraham, nee Fromm, also of the Mosaic faith.