Motel (Mordechai) Appelbaum celebrates his Bar Mitzvah with family and friends in the Gabersee displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 26860

Date: March 1950 - May 1950
Locale: Wasserburg, [Munich; Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Gabersee
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Murray Appelbaum

Biography: Murray Appelbaum (born Motel Appelbaum) is the son of Gittel Chibowsky and Chanania Appelbaum. He was born May 2, 1937 in Sarnaki, Poland, where his father was a merchant. Motel had one older brother, Yitzhak (b. 1933). Following the German invasion, the Appelbaums remained in their hometown for nearly a year before going into hiding with a Christian family in the forest near Sarnaki. In late 1940 or early 1941, Motel and his family crossed the border into the Soviet Union. They made their way to Tiblisi in the Georgian SSR, where they eked out a living buying and selling merchandise until the end of the war. In 1945 the family returned to Poland. For four to five months they lived in Bytom, before moving westward with the Bricha. From Poland the Appelbaums traveled to Salzburg and then to Germany, where they lived in the Bad Reichenhall, Gabersee and Feldafing displaced persons camps. In 1951 they were finally allowed to immigrate to the U.S.
Keyword: BAR/BAT MITZVAH
CELEBRATIONS
CHILDREN/YOUTH
DP CAMPS/CENTERS
DPS (JEWISH)
GABERSEE
INTERIORS
JEWS (POLISH)
WASSERBURG
WOMEN
YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Murray Appelbaum
: Record last modified: 2005-04-11 00:00:00
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