David Mielzynski papers

David Mielzynski (later David Mills) was born in 1910 in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland). He lived in Berlin, Germany, with his wife Liesbeth Sieradzki, who was born in 1913. Liesbeth left Berlin for England expecting him to follow in two weeks. Instead he was trapped in Germany and survived for three years hidden in a toolshed on a field in Berlin-Lichterfelde, 2 miles from SS Headquarters. A non-Jewish man whose name in not known, supplied him with food, helping him to survive in hiding for three years. David was liberated by the Russians in May 1945. He emigrated to the United States in September 1946. He Americanized his name to Mills. His wife Liesbeth’s entire family from Poznan, Łódź, and Warsaw perished in the Holocaust. David, 78, passed away in 1988.