Rebuilding Through Recipes: The Schneiders’ Story of Survival, Family, and

Join the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center and Cincinnati Museum Center in the crEATe Culinary Studio featuring the Kroger Food Lab for an intimate program exploring the role of food, family, and memory in the lives of Holocaust survivors. As part of our culinary series, Hank and Anita Schneider share the extraordinary story of Hank’s father, Joseph Schneider, whose devotion to his family and determination to rebuild shaped the generations that followed.

Joseph was serving in the Polish Army when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced into a ghetto. After learning of the conditions they faced, he volunteered to join them. Six weeks later the family was deported to Ludwigsdorf Concentration Camp. Upon arrival they were separated. Joseph was the only member of his immediate family to survive.

In the midst of hardship he met his future wife, Ellen, through a fence at Ludwigsdorf. After liberation on May 11, 1945, Joseph located Ellen again and the two married soon after. Their son Hank was born in Stuttgart in 1946. In 1949 the family immigrated to Cincinnati where they began building a new life and welcomed two more children, Ray and Marilyn.

During this special program Hank and Anita will reflect on the ways food carries memory, offers comfort, and supports healing. Together they will prepare the Schneider family’s apple cake, a recipe that holds the stories, connections, and traditions that helped restore a sense of home.

This program is presented in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center during the presentation of Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.

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