Henry Aizenman

Henry Aizenman, born 20 March, 1931, in Przytyk, Poland has been a resident of Birmingham since 1957. He emigrated to the United States in 1947 as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's program to relocate Jewish war orphans after WWII. He is a survivor of several concentration and labor camps, including Auschwitz, where his forearm was tattooed with the number B-21. He was liberated from Ludwigslust Concentration Camp on 2 May, 1945 (he considers this his second birthday) by American Allied forces. He has spoken publicly, educating children about the horrors of his early life. He is retired from the jewelry business and has three children. He is one of only nineteen survivors of the Holoaust living in Birmingham in 2007.