Patricia Kolodziejek, a member of the Children of Polish Christian Holocaust Survivors with the Polish American Congress, wishes her dad a Happy 90th Birthday.A Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, Walter Kolodziejek was sent to the death camp shortly after the Nazi’s opened it in 1940.Brooklyn, N.Y. .. Living long enough to celebrate a 90th birthday would be something special for anyone. It would be something “extra special” for anyone who had to spend several years in the Auschwitz death camp and suffer the brutality of Hitler’s SS.