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

[Behind the Aegis]

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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[VarryOn]

1. What a great testimony....

They both know to keep many of their thoughts to themselves. If my wife knew my every thought, we would have made it two months!!!

[JudyM]

2. So touching.

Thanks for posting this, BtA.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. K&R

[Kid Berwyn]

5. "We kept the ups up and the downs down."

Amazing couple. Hope all get to hear and know their wisdom.

[MissMillie]

6. So touching

I've never been married. My parents were married 69 years and 10 months before my mother passed away last year. What I witnessed in them was this:

1) having a common goal is important. My folks were dirt poor and had 6 kids to raise. Having that common purpose (providing for a big family) made them work TOGETHER. On the rare occasion that they were both home at the same time, if one of them was up doing something, the other was working right along side. Dad didn't sit and watch sports while mom was making dinner. Mom went out to shovel the driveway w/ Dad so that whoever had to get out of the driveway could.

2) They RARELY said "no" to each other. Of course there were limitations with money, and caring for a big family put limitations on their time. But if a "yes" was possible, a "yes" was given. BOTH OF THEM.