Doba [Cymerman] Yermus, Moshe Yermus, (center) and their sons Sam (third from left) and Aaron (second from left) wait at a train station in Khazakstan for their return to Poland following the end of World War II.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 88629

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Caption: Doba [Cymerman] Yermus, Moshe Yermus, (center) and their sons Sam (third from left) and Aaron (second from left) wait at a train station in Khazakstan for their return to Poland following the end of World War II.
Date: 1946
Locale: [Kazakhstan] USSR
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Aaron Yermus

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Aaron Yermus

Keyword: DPS (JEWISH) FAMILIES (POSTWAR JEWISH) JEWS (POLISH) REPATRIATION TRAIN STATIONS TRAINS
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Repatriation -- USSR

Biography: Aaron Yermus is the son of Doba [Cymerman] Yermus, Moshe Yermus. He had a brother Sam. He was born in Chelm Poland in , his parents and brothers fled Chelm for Rovno. The were deported to Siberia and then were held in open arrest in the Ural mountains and in Kazakstan in the towns of Szierdlovsk and Kzylorda After the war, the family returned to Poland and then moved to the Steyr DP camp in Austria. Aaron, who had contacts with the Betar Zionist movement, was given work as a phone operator by the camp administration. While in DP camp he met his future wife, Helen Verblunsky. The two settled in Canada and married in 1952.