butied around 20 years ago, his widow geraldine is still alive, she lives in detroit. called mrs. fedder on the was and said, mrs. fedder, your husband robert felder? yes.aid ,nd we said was he also rudy and she said yes, that was him. her did rudy ever tell you how he survived in auschwitz, and she said there were two things. the the train arrived and camp guards came and literally pulled people off the trains, ton rudy's parents were sent be gassed, rudy wore glasses, he was only 15 years old, but his glasses went flying and he was sort of, he had poor eye sight, flailing around, but because of the stereotype that you're weaker if you wear teenager with glasses was sent to the line to be gassed, but because his he was sent flying to the line for forced labor. it was just a matter of luck, had the presence of mind to say that he could work as a factmaker and that is in how he survived in auschwitz, gave theave us, she holocaust museum this photo, and that's rudy in the middle, with glasses, looks a lot older than 15 i think. but there's rudy with his glasses, and also given to us