Group portrait of the members of a Shomer Hatzair kibbutz hachshara (Zionist collective) in Sosnowiec, Poland.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 58203

Date: July 1945
Locale: Sosnowiec, [Katowice; Zaglebie] Poland
Variant Locale: Sosnovets
Sosnowitz
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Hachsharot -- Other Countries
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hadasa Goldreich (Ala Zylbersztajn)

Biography: Hadasa Goldreich (born Ala Zylbersztajn) is the daughter of Mosze and Zisl (Erlich) Zylbersztajn. She was born December 28, 1926 in Dabrowa Gornicza, where her father was a baker. Ala had three younger siblings: Edzia (b. 1935), Pola (b. 1936) and Henius (b. 1940). Edzia and Pola were deported to their death in Auschwitz in 1942. Zisl and Henius were deported and killed the following year. After leaving the Dabrowa ghetto in 1943, Ala was sent first to Gelenau, a sub-camp of the Flossenbuerg concentration camp and then to Langenbielau, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. She was liberated from Langenbielau at the age of eighteen. After the war Ala returned to Dabrowa and then joined a Shomer Hatzair Zionist collective in neighboring Sosnowiec (Antek Zukerman was also a member). Later, Ala made her way to Genoa, Italy, where she met Marek Goldreich. The couple married in January 1948, and the following December, immigrated to Israel.
Keyword: CHILDREN/YOUTH
DPS (JEWISH)
GROUP PORTRAITS
HACHSHAROT (ZIONIST COLLECTIVES)
ORPHANS
ZIONIST GROUPS (HASHOMER HATZAIR)
ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Artifact Photographer: Max Reid
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Hadasa Goldreich (Ala Zylbersztajn)

Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.95.3
: Record last modified: 2017-12-28 00:00:00
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