Group portrait of students and teachers at a school in Oswiecim, Poland.
Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of students and teachers at a school in Oswiecim, Poland.
Among those pictured is Szmuel Aron Silbiger. - Date
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1933
- Locale
- Oswiecim, [Krakow] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Auschwitz
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eva Silbiger
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Eva Silbiger
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Szmuel Aron Silberger is the son of Natan Akiwa and Ewa (Holzer) Silberger. He was born October 27, 1923 in Oswiecim, Poland, where his family had lived for 400 years, in a house situated near what later became Auschwitz II. Szmuel's father owned a brick factory, farm and inn. Szmuel had three siblings: Mirka, Lilka and Szymek. During World War II his mother and brother perished. When the war was over Szmuel settled in the Landsberg displaced persons camp, where he worked as a policeman. While living in Landsberg he joined the Irgun revisionist Zionist underground. He left for Palestine in June 1948 traveling aboard the Altelena, which set sail from France with a large cache of arms for the Irgun milita in Israel. The government of the new Jewish State ordered that the ship be blown up upon its arrival to prevent the supply of a competing Israeli fighting force.
- Record last modified:
- 2003-12-08 00:00:00
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