Joel Nitzlich was born in Wieniawa, Poland, 1904. During the war he was in France, France Deported with Transport 13, Train 901-8 from Pithiviers,Camp,France to Auschwitz Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland on 31/07/1942. Joel survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.