From Bachelor to Family Man

From Bachelor to Family Man

Holocaust Survivors

Andre Kessler

Revenge on the Nazis

"Within six months my bachelorhood went right out the window."

"My mother, may she rest in peace, always told me I was a bum and I’d ask why I was a bum, and she’d say, 'Because you are 33 and you are not married.' I reunited with my father in 1961. He never came to this country. He stayed in France. Every time I would go visit him, he would arrange dates for me with all his Jewish friends, because he thought I wasn’t married because there weren’t any Jewish girls in the United States. In 1973, I met a very lovely lady from Savannah, Georgia, and within six months my bachelorhood went right out the window...

I am very proud of my family; I always say that my children and my grandchildren are my revenge on the Nazis."

Editor's note: Andre and Marsha Kessler settled in Marietta, Georgia, where they raised two children, Gina, and Lawrence. They now have four grandchildren.

1973