David Tennenbaum papers

David Tennenbaum was born Dawid Tennenbaum in Lvov, Poland (now L’viv, Ukraine) in 1931 to fruit import/export business owner Jozef Tennenbaum and Fanny (Fradel Feige) Tennenbaum (née Gruber). In August 1942 the family was sent to the Kleparow ghetto outside Lvov. David and his mother escaped and found a temporary hiding place with the help of a Ukrainian professor and family friend. The professor secured false papers for them under the names Franciszka and Teresa Wieczorkowska, and in December 1942 they moved to a long term hiding place in Zimna Woda with an elderly, retired, schoolteacher named Jadwiga Sokolinska. David passed as a girl, having grown his hair long. Fanny was initially able to visit her husband in Kleparow, but he disappeared in the spring of 1943. After Zimna Woda was liberated in September 1944, David and Fanny moved to Krakow and then in 1946 to Paris. They immigrated to the United States in March 1951.