Press card issued to Ruth Korek attesting she is employed by the Landsberg Jidisze Cajtung.
Overview
- Caption
- Press card issued to Ruth Korek attesting she is employed by the Landsberg Jidisze Cajtung.
- Date
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1945 - 1948
- Locale
- Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Landsberg Am Lech
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Melinda Mandelbaum Stein
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Melinda Mandelbaum Stein
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Melinda Stein is the daughter of Ruth Korek Mandelbaum and Samson Mandelbaum. Ruth Korek was the daughter of Moshe Korek and Malka Sperka Korek. She was born in Lodz Poland on December 25, 1920. She had two younger brothers and a younger sister, Shulamit (Sally). Before the war Ruth worked as a journalist in Lodz. Her parents and younger brothers were deported from the Lodz ghetto to Chelmno where they perished. She and Shulamit were sent to the labor camp, Skarzysko-Kamienna and survived. After liberation they came to the Landsberg displaced persons camp where Ruth edited the camp newspaper, the Landsberger Cajtung. In 1949 she married Samson Mandelbaum who survived the war fighting in a Polish unit of the Russian army. Samson was born in Szczakowa, Poland in 1917 to Shmuel and Golda (Weiner) Mandelbaum. He had six siblings: Szaja, Helena, Menachem Mendel, Nehemia, Wolf and Yosek. He, Szaja, Helena, Wolf and Yosek survived. His other two siblings and parents perished. In 1949 Ruth and Samson immigrated to the United States.
- Record last modified:
- 2008-08-13 00:00:00
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