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Document dated October 11, 1946, which states that the family of Abraham Rubinsztejn may petition for documentation that he is deceased only after he has been missing for five years. Abraham was deported to Lublin March 4, 1943.

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Document dated October 11, 1946, which states that the family of Abraham Rubinsztejn may petition for documentation that he is deceased only after he has been missing for five years. Abraham was deported to Lublin March 4, 1943.

Document dated October 11, 1946, which states that the family of Abraham Rubinsztejn may petition for documentation that he is deceased only after he has been missing for five years. Abraham was deported to Lublin March 4, 1943.

Date
1946 October 11
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- France
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dora Rubinsztejn Weiner
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Biography
Dora Weiner (born Dworja Raca Rubinsztejn) is the daughter of Hersh and Chaya (Grynberg) Rubinsztejn. She was born February 17, 1927 in Plock, Poland, where her father was a Jewish ritual slaughterer. Dworja had two older brothers, Szamuel and Armand. The family lived in Plock until the spring of 1929, when Chaya took Dworja and Armand to Paris to live with her brother's family. To appease his father, Hersh stayed behind in Plock with Szamuel. After the German occupation of northern France in 1940, Chaya and the children moved south to Grenade sur Adour. Subsequently, eighteen-year-old Armand was sent to the Septfondes labor camp. In 1943 he was transferred to Gurs and then deported to the east by way of Drancy. In September 1942 Dworja was sent to live in Lacaune les Bains, where she was required to check in weekly with the police. Then, in the spring of 1944 Dworja went into hiding in L'Isle Jourdain with false papers provided by the Maquis resistance. She remained there until the liberation. Dworja then returned to Paris, where she lived until her immigration to the United States in May 1949. She sailed from Cherbourg to New York on the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth. Dworja's mother also survived the war hiding in France, but her father and two brothers perished in Poland.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Dora Rubinsztejn Weiner
 
Record last modified: 1998-02-03 00:00:00
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