Elimelekh Shulem Veiszaltz was born in Sosnowic, Poland, 1926 to Shmelka and Tune. He was teenager. Prior to WWII he lived in Katowice, Poland. During the war he was in Blachownia Śląska/Blechhammer, Germany. Elimelekh Shulem 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.