Andrew Altman

How I Honored My Grandfather’s Memory — With a 20-Square-Foot Model of Auschwitz

It was August 1944 when the last trains rolled out of Radogoszcz station from the Łódź ghetto. The trains were headed for Auschwitz, and my great-grandfather Edward (Yehuda) Biderman was on one of these ill-fated transports. He had suffered so much already. Born into poverty on October 3, 1911, in Poland, he dropped out of…