Portrait of the Wiernik family in Sosnowiec.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 01250

Date: 1936 January 08
Locale: Sosnowiec, [Katowice; Zaglebie] Poland
Variant Locale: Sosnovets
Sosnowitz
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- Studio Portraits
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Benjamin & Hanka Schlesinger

Biography: Hanka Schlesinger (born Chana Wiernik) is the daughter of Szymon Avigdor and Hinda (Kastenberg) Wiernik from Sosnowiec, Poland. Chana had two sisters: Chava and Mania. Her father died in 1938 at the age of 42. During the war her mother and sisters were deported to Auschwitz, where they were killed in 1942. Chana was deported first to the Gogolin labor camp in Upper Silesia before being transferred to Gleiwitz. She survived the evacuation death march to Ravensbrueck and Neustadt-Glewe. After the liberation Chana returned to Sosnowiec, where she joined a Zionist collective and worked at a Jewish orphanage. In 1946 she left for Palestine aboard an illegal immigrant ship, but was deported to Cyprus by the British. During her internment she met Benjamin Szlezyngier, whom she married on October 25, 1946. Three months later the couple was given permission to settle in Palestine.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH)
JEWS (POLISH)
STUDIO PORTRAITS
WIERNIK FAMILY (ZAGLEBIE)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Benjamin & Hanka Schlesinger
: Record last modified: 2001-04-03 00:00:00
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