Biography of Sigmund Halstuch

Sigmund Halchstuch was born on 1929 in Czortkow, Poland. His main hobby was reading/literature. When World War Two broke out the Nazi’s first shipped away anyone of a high political rank or anyone who was likely to start a rebellion which included his father (who was a lawyer). The Nazi’s’ also made the well-educated and high class minorities sweep the streets of the town until being sent to the work camp Lwow. Among these people were Sigmund and his mother (who was a professor at the time). Her aunt was given a larger house at the ghetto because she was a doctor. He hid in the closet of this house in order to stay there for the night. In the ghetto, he was assigned by the Jewish police to give out food tickets (tickets given to the ghetto inhabitants in order to redeem food). His brother later developed appendicitis and died due to unhealthy conditions. He and the remainder of his family were sent to Lwow. They hardly survived until the war ended. Once it did they returned to their home to find a furniture-stripped house, which was left that way because the housekeeper sold the furniture to buy them food for when they were in the ghetto. On the way to his house Sigmund was carrying the legal documents of his mother and due to the cold, his hands froze which caused him to drop the papers without noticing. For this reason, he does not like to carry things to this very day.