(Jewish Group) The secret to a 75 year marriage, from 'the oldest Holocaust-surviving couple'

Sam and Frieda Weinreich are thriving. Sam is 102-years-old and Frieda is 97. They have been married 75 years. If they are not the oldest Holocaust-surviving couple in the United States, as local Memphis news reports claim, they are certainly in the running.

Frieda is tiny, like you could put her in your pocket. But looks can be deceiving. She survived hell on earth for six long years, as did Sam.



Sam has made it his life’s mission to tell his story to as many people as possible — at schools, synagogues, on Zoom, any place that’ll have him. “Everything I tell you is true,” Sam said. “Everything I say is real and happened.”

Sam was born into an Orthodox family in 1919 in Łódź, Poland. One of nine children — four brothers and four sisters — his family owned four furniture and antique shops. Sam began singing in his school’s choir when he was 8 years old. Gifted with perfect pitch, he was a mezzo-soprano in his youth, later becoming a tenor as he grew up.

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