Born in Gdov, Poland, Arnold Weitzenhof remembers his family’s bakery and grocery store and that his parents wanted him to become a dentist. In 1939 Gdov was occupied by the Wehrmacht and in 1940 the SS and Gestapo made the town Judenfrei (free of Jews). Twelve-year-old Arnold and his brothers were taken to Stalowa Wola Concentration Camp. By the time the war was over, Arnold had survived four camps—Stalowa Wola, Julag One, Płaszów, and Czestochowa