Steve Hess, Holocaust survivor, will be sitting down with past club president, Don Alhart, for this interview-style presentation.

Steven Hess (Stefan) and his twin, Marion, were born in Amsterdam, Holland on January 14, 1938, two years after their parents fled Nazi Germany for the presumed safety of the Netherlands.

After the Nazi invasion on May 10, 1940, the Jewish family was eventually rounded up and sent first to the Westerbork deportation camp and, later, from there to the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In late April 1945, after two weeks on a cattle car train, later remembered in history as “The Lost Transport,” they were liberated by Russian troops near the village of Tröbitz in eastern Germany. Of the approximately 2,500 prisoners on the train, more than 600 died on the train or shortly thereafter. He and his sister are the only still living twins of Bergen-Belsen and arguably of any concentration camp. The family eventually returned to Holland. They immigrated to the United States, arriving in New York on January 1, 1947.

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