Shmeul's biography

Shmeul was born on August 26, 1909, three years before his sister gitl.  He was born in Warsaw, Poland at the Warsaw community hospital.  His family was fairly poor and couldn't always feed and cloth their children.  when he was twenty-nine he was getting married to a woman named fayge.  On the way to their wedding they were stopped by nazis and all their belongings were taken.  Then they were shoved in to two box cars (about 90 people to a car) and traveled for two days with only one stop.  They were taken to Auswitcz and lived there for a couple months then tried to escape but were caught and shot in front of everyone.