Michael Martin Scislowski

In September 1942 Michael was arrested by the SS, suspected, like many Polish youths, of being in the underground. He escaped, but was arrested again in March 1943 and held in Warsaw's Paviak Prison. After interrogation and beatings, he was shipped to Auschwitz where he barely survived starvation, brutality and diseases. In 1944 he was sent to the Flossenburg camp in Germany where he worked in a Messerschmitt factory.

Michael was liberated while on a death march to Dachau in April 1945 by General Patton’s Third Army. He worked with the U.S. Occupational Forces for five years, stationed in Germany and France, before immigrating to America in 1950.

In 1954…he married Helen, and together, they lived in the New York metropolitan area for the next 53 years…where he worked as an Architect/Civil Engineer….and raised two sons, Andrew and Mark.

Michael was active with several Patriotic Polish Veteran groups throughout his life in New York and Las Vegas. He was President of the Polish Veterans Post 45 on Long Island for twenty years. He strived, along with his fellow comrades, to preserve wartime memories and history for future generations.

In 1995, Michael was inducted into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

Michael & Helen moved to Las Vegas in April 2007, where he enjoyed his new lifestyle and circle of new friends.

Michael passed-away on January 21, 2014 with his family at his bedside.

We are all blessed for having known Michael, and with that, he shall always live-on in our hearts and memories.