A group of Jewish DPs pose in front of a building in the Deggendorf DP camp.
Overview
- Caption
- A group of Jewish DPs pose in front of a building in the Deggendorf DP camp.
The banner reads in Hebrew and English, Erez Israel for the nation Israel (Land of Israel for the People of Israel). The group, instructed by members of the Jewish Brigade, was a small, centrist, slightly left-of-center Zionist movement called Noam (literally "pleasantness"). Shortly after the photo was taken members of the group formed an agricultural kibbutz to prepare for their aliyah to Israel. Pictured in the photo are Hadasa Cudzynowska, Henik and Sala Weingarten. - Date
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1946
- Locale
- Deggendorf, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Morris Rosen
Rights & Restrictions
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Morris Rosen
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Morris Rosen (born Moniek Rozen) is the son of Jakub Rozen and his second wife, Golda Chaja Warszawska. He was born October 11, 1922 in Dabrowa Gornicza, where his father worked as the official distributor of two state-controlled commodities, tobacco and acetylene. Moniek had two siblings: Josek (b. 1924) and Bluma (b. 1926), and eight half-brothers and sisters from his father's first marriage to Pola Frochwajg (who died in 1919): Leosia (b. 1898), Yehiel (b. 1900), Yitzhak (b. 1902), Rubin (b. 1905), Rozka (b. 1913), Israel (b. 1914), Ruchcia (b. 1912), Sala (b. 1917) and Tamara (b. 1918). After the Germans occupied Poland, the Rozens remained in Dabrowa. In August 1942 Moniek's parents were deported to their death in Auschwitz. At the time of their deportation Moniek and two of his brothers, Srulek and Josek, were at the Mittelstrasse labor camp in Dabrowa. In October 1942 Moniek was transferred to the Szczakowa [perhaps Szczepankowo] labor camp, where he worked in a leather workshop. A year later he was moved to the Annaberg labor camp and then to Gruenberg, where he worked in a textile factory. While in Gruenberg, Moniek was temporarily reunited with his sister Bluma. He remained there until April 1944, when he was transferred to the Kretschamberg labor camp. When this camp was evacuated in February 1945, Moniek was sent on a forced march to Buchenwald that lasted six weeks. Soon after his arrival, Moniek was transferred to Theresienstadt, where he was liberated by the Soviets on May 6, 1945. Moniek's brother-in-law, Szabtai Klugman, discovered him in Theresienstadt, and together they went in search of surviving relatives. Szabtai's wife (Moniek's older sister) Leosia was killed on a death march just days before liberation. In the course of their search, they encountered a group of young women from Dabrowa, who had barely survived a death march from the Helmbrechts factory camp in Muenchberg, Germany to the town of Volary in Bohemia. After locating his surviving siblings, Moniek went to live at the New Palestine displaced persons camp near Salzburg, Austria. He immigrated to the United States in September 1949 and settled in Baltimore. Of the eleven Rozen children, five perished during the war. Of the six who survived, one moved to America before the war, one fled to the Soviet Union, and the other four lived through ghettos, labor camps, concentration camps, and death marches.
Hinda Chilewicz (now Helen Luksenburg) is the daughter of Chaim and Chana Chilewicz. The eldest of three children, Hinda was born on April 4, 1926 in Sosnowiec, Poland where her father owned a textile mill. After the German invasion the family remained in Sosnowiec, which soon became an open ghetto. During this period Hinda's brother Abraham (Mumek) was sent to a labor camp in Markstaedt. He later died in 1944 at the age of 17 while on a death march. Hinda was transported to the Goglin transit camp, and in March 1943 she was deported to the Gleiwitz labor camp. When the ghetto was liquidated in August 1943, Hinda's parents and sister, Bluma, were deported to Auschwitz. All three perished in the camp. Hinda remained in Gleiwitz for over a year and a half. There she met her future husband, Welek Luksenburg from Dabrowa.
William Luksenburg (born Welek Luksenburg) is the son of Simcha Dawid and Rozalia Luksenburg. His father worked in the wholesale meat business, while his mother served as president of the local Wizo organization in Dabrowa. Like the Chilewicz', the Luksenburgs remained in their hometown from the beginning of the occupation until the onset of the deportations. Welek's parents were put on a transport to Auschwitz in August 1942. His older brother, Szlomo, was likewise taken during one of the deportation actions. Szlomo had initially been sent for forced labor to Klein Mangersdorf but had returned to Dabrowa after being injured. Both Szlomo and his parents were killed in Auschwitz. Welek was deported first to Blechhammer, in March 1943, and then to Gleiwitz. Together Welek and Hinda were evacuated from the camp in January 1945. They were taken in an open wagon to Theresienstadt and from there to Oranienburg. From Oranienburg Hinda was transferred to Ravensbrueck, where she was liberated by Americans. Welek was sent first to Flossenburg, then Regensburg, and finally on a death march ending at Libenau-bei-Laufen on the Austrian border, where he was liberated on May 5. Hinda and Welek were reunited in August 1946 at the DP camp in Weiden Oberfalz. There they were married on March 2, 1947. Two years later they immigrated to the United States.
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