Landsberg Jewish Center residence card issued to Mina Aspler-Fridland.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 60807

Date: 1946 April 25
Variant Locale: Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Landsberg -- Documents
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Minna Aspler

Biography: Minna Aspler (born Minna Friedland) is the daughter of Shlomo Mendle Friedland and Feiga Shivski Friedland. She was born in Dniepropietruwsk, Russia on June 9, 1922 and her brother, Baruch, was born in 1924. The family moved to Poland, and during World War II they were imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto. On June 22, 1942 Minna escaped the ghetto with the help of Polish friends. She worked in a library in Warsaw under the assumed name, Maria Burczysk and was helped by the family of Henryk Krueger. Minna was liberated by the American Army on May 4, 1945 in Wahlwinkel, Germany. After liberation she came to the Landsberg DP camp where she lived prior to her immigration to the United States in October 1946. None of her immediate family survived. Minna never learned how her father died. Her mother was killed by a Ukrainian during the ghetto uprising, and her brother probably perished in Nowo-Svierzn. In 1987 Yad Vashem honored Henryk Krueger as a Righteous Among the Nations.
Keyword: DOCUMENTS
DP CAMPS/CENTERS
DPS (JEWISH)
IDENTIFICATION PAPERS
LANDSBERG
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Minna Aspler

Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.267.1
: Record last modified: 2007-01-16 00:00:00
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