Jewish DPs living in the town of Weiden, Germany, make a pilgrimage to the Flossenbuerg concentration camp on the first or second anniversary of the liberation.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 33246

Overview

Caption: Jewish DPs living in the town of Weiden, Germany, make a pilgrimage to the Flossenbuerg concentration camp on the first or second anniversary of the liberation.

They pose on the roof of the crematorium, next to a memorial listing the number of those who perished in the camp according to nationality. Among those pictured are Helen Chilewicz and Sala Weingarten and her father.
Date: Circa 1946 - 1947
Locale: Flossenbuerg, Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William and Helen Luksenburg

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: William and Helen Luksenburg

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS DPS (JEWISH) FLOSSENBUERG GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) MEMORIALS/MONUMENTS WINTER SCENES
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Flossenbuerg

Artifact Photographer: Max Reid
Biography: Hinda Chilewicz (now Helen Luksenburg) is the daughter of Chaim and Chana Chilewicz. The eldest of three children, Hinda was born on April 4, 1926 in Sosnowiec, Poland where her father owned a textile mill. After the German invasion the family remained in Sosnowiec, which soon became an open ghetto. During this period Hinda's brother Abraham (Mumek) was sent to a labor camp in Markstaedt. He later died in 1944 at the age of 17 while on a death march. Hinda was transported to the Goglin transit camp, and in March 1943 she was deported to the Gleiwitz labor camp. When the ghetto was liquidated in August 1943, Hinda's parents and sister, Bluma, were deported to Auschwitz. All three perished in the camp. Hinda remained in Gleiwitz for over a year and a half. There she met her future husband, Welek Luksenburg from Dabrowa.