Studio portrait of Gizela Adlerfliegel with her daughters Karola and Mania.
Overview
- Caption
- Studio portrait of Gizela Adlerfliegel with her daughters Karola and Mania.
Gizela passed away before the war, two years after the photo was taken. - Date
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Circa 1932
- Locale
- Bedzin, [Zaglebie; Katowice] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Bendzin
Bendin - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sima Malah
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Sima Malah
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Sima Malach is the daughter of Zishe Zygmunt Malah. Zishe, the second son of Refuel Hirsh and Malka Ruchel Blum Malach, was born in 1916 in Dabrowa. He had six siblings: Yitzhak Mordechai, Syma, Frimet, Velvel, Ester and Abraham. He married Frymcia Finkelsztajn in 1937. After the German invasion the couple fled to the Soviet Union, but were separated during their flight. Zishe was deported to Siberia, where he met Etta Rusinek. Dawid Malach, their son, was born in 1943. After the liberation, Zishe returned to Dabrowa, where he married Mania Adlerfliegel. Mania (b. 1918) grew up in Bedzin and survived labor camps and Auschwitz where she worked in Kanada as prisoner #51507). They remained in Poland, where their two daughters, Giza and Sima, were born, until 1957, when the family left for Israel.
- Record last modified:
- 2002-01-07 00:00:00
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