{"id":2063,"date":"2020-04-21T06:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:08:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T12:35:27","slug":"david-herman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/memory-quilts\/david-herman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David Herman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tbmq-156.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-903\" title=\"click to enlarge image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/250\/tbmq-156.jpg\" alt=\"tbmq-156\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><\/a><span class=\"intro\">David was born on 6th September 1926 in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia. In April 1944 he was transported to Auschwitz, separated from his family, and then taken to Buchenwald where this black and white photograph was taken of him in prison uniform aged 17 \u2013 it is the earliest photograph we have. He survived slave labour in Gleina and Rhemsdorf and miraculously met up with his younger brother, Abe. They kept each other alive on the harrowing death march to Theresienstadt where they were liberated. More than 40 members of the extended Herman family were lost in the camps, but amazingly all three of David\u2019s siblings survived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"intro\">From an orphanage, Belgick\u00e1 25, in Prague, David came to Montford Hall in Lancashire in March 1946 with other Boys for rehabilitation, before moving to London to start again. In 1954 David married Olive, his inspiration and the love of his life, and they built a new family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"intro\">We all discussed what to include in the square and Julia brought our ideas to life. The Carpathian mountains and the Latorica river form the backdrop to an idyllic childhood. The pear and walnuts are from stories of David\u2019s childhood &#8211; many revolved around climbing trees. The roots of the walnut tree are intertwined with the names of David\u2019s grandparents, parents and three siblings. David and Olive\u2019s names are inscribed on the trunk, their children and families\u2019 names on the leaves, along with jewels. David said his four children were his jewels, his ten grandchildren were his diamonds.<\/span>David\u2019s grandfather owned a brick factory, represented by the brick border containing names of family members who perished and words representing David\u2019s interests and things he loved &#8211; sculpture, chess, backgammon, swimming, sunshine, nuts, bagels, gnocchi, Israel, The Boys.<br \/>\nOn the right, David is seated behind a chess board waiting for Abe to make his next move. On the left are sketches of his designs for Herwa Fashions, the company he built with Olive. David was incredibly artistic and a genius with scissors, cutting designs first out of paper which were then sketched.<br \/>\nWhenever he walked into a room, he always used to say: \u201cHello, you lucky people!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"aq\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Charles, Rosalind (Gelbart), Julia (Burton) and Paul Herman<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David was born on 6th September 1926 in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia. In April 1944 he was transported to Auschwitz, separated from his family, and then taken to Buchenwald where this black and white photograph was taken of him in prison uniform aged 17 \u2013 it is the earliest photograph we have. He survived slave labour in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}