Morris and Lala Fishman papers

Morris Fishman (1915‐2006) was a rabbi from Albany who joined the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in 1946 and spent two years as director of the displaced persons camps near Kassel, Passau, and Regensburg. He married Holocaust survivor Lala Fishmen (born Clara Weintraub, 1922-2011) in Passau in 1947. The couple moved to Brooklyn in 1948, and settled in Missouri soon after.

Lala Fishman (1922-2011) was born Clara Weintraub in Kam'i︠a︡net︠s︡ʹ-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine) in 1922 to Ilya and Olga Weintraub and was raised in Lvov. She survived the war by concealing her Jewish identity, refusing to enter the Lvov ghetto, and escaping from the Janowska concentration camp after her arrest. Using false papers in the name of Urszula Krzyzanowska, she fled to Sambor, Krakow, Radom, and Katowice. After the war, she moved to the Hasenhecke displaced person camp near Kassel and met Morris Fishman. Morris Fishman (1915-2006), a rabbi from Albany, joined the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in 1946 and spent two years as director of the displaced persons camps near Kassel, Passau, and Regensburg. Morris and Lala were married in Passau in 1947, moved to Brooklyn in 1948, and later settled in Missouri. Lala’s brother Fima survived the war, but her parents and sister Rysia perished.