Portrait of the Gruenzeiger family.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of the Gruenzeiger family.
From left to right are Pola, Lea, Zendel and Rywka. - Date
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Circa 1935
- Locale
- Dabrowa Gornicza, [Zaglebie; Katowice] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Dombrova
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Isidore Itzhak Gruengras
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Isidore Itzhak Gruengras
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Ester Gruenzeiger is the daughter of Mordechai Mendel and Rywka Fogel Gruenzeiger. She was born on March 15, 1925 in Hannover where her father worked a s a shoemaker. Her family also returned to the Zaglebie region during the 1930s. During the war she worked in the Rossner shop in the Dabrowa ghetto. She later was sent to Langenbilau from where she was liberated on April 8, 1945 at the age of 20.
Yitzhak Isidor Gruengras is the son of Nachman Gruengras and Ester (nee Lubling) Gruengras. He was born on June 14, 1923 in Hannover where his father, Nachman, was a textile merchant. Yitzhak Isidor had one older brother, Josef David (b. 1918) and two younger sisters, Fredzia (b. 1924) and Adela (b. 1928). In 1930 the Gruengras family returned to Nachman's hometown, Bedzin, Poland and established a metal works factory there. In 1942 Yitzhak was arrested and interned in Dulag, a transfer camp in Sosnowiec. He was transferred shortly after that to the Anaberg labor camp and later to Markstadt labor camp. He was then transferred and subsequently liberated in Reichenbach (now Dzierzoniow). Yitzhak's parents and sisters were deported to Auschwitz in January 1944, where they perished. His brother Josef David survived. On October 7, 1945 Yitzhak married Ester Gruenzeiger in the Regen displaced persons' camp in Bawaria. They immigrated to Israel in 1948.
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