PREVIOUSLY: Baker Ernie Feld survives the hated Nazis. Now what? When the war ended in 1945, Ernie returned to the only home he knew: Lucenec. He took the train, walking…
PREVIOUSLY: Baker Ernie Feld doesn’t like anyone. Those close to him fear his brush with the Nazis during World War II has damaged him. They don’t know the half of…
PHOTOGRAPHS by David Becker PREVIOUSLY: Ernie Feld is a pastry chef whose own life has no sweetness. Call it the Mystery of Ernie. Those who knew him wondered: What had…
PREVIOUSLY: World War Two begins and baker Ernie Feld is herded onto a train in his hometown with other Jewish prisoners — to where he hasn’t a clue. For countless…
MAIN PHOTOGRAPHY by David Becker He was born Ernest Zeev Ehrenfeld on February 21, 1925, in Lucenec, a provincial city of 35,000 residents in the agricultural heart of Czechoslovakia. His…