Portrait of three young people in the Bedzin ghetto, one of whom is wearing a Jewish star.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of three young people in the Bedzin ghetto, one of whom is wearing a Jewish star.
Pictured from left to right are Natan Gipsman, Regina Fajerman, and Efroim Poremba. - Date
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1940 - 1943
- Locale
- Bedzin, [Zaglebie; Katowice] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Bendzin
Bendin - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Fela and Natan Gipsman
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Fela and Natan Gipsman
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Natan Gipsman is the son of Izak and Chaja Gitla Gipsman. He was born in January 1925, in Bedzin, Poland, where his parents owned a store. Natan had a younger sister, Maniusia (b.1930). The family lived at 3 Sienkiewicza Street, where they remained during the early years of the German occupation. In 1942, Natan's father was deported to a labor camp in Germany. A year later, Natan was sent to Sackenhoym, a subcamp of the Blechhammer concentration camp. After nearly two years in Sachenhoym, he was transferred to Blechhammer in April 1944. In January 1945, Natan began a long series of transfers from one concentration camp to another that included stays in Gross Rosen, Buchenwald, and Schoenebeck (a satellite camp of Buchenwald). During the evacuation of Schoenebeck, he escaped and went into hiding until his liberation by the Red Army on May 8, 1945. Natan's mother and sister were deported to the Auschwitz death camp, where they perished. His father survived. After the war Natan moved to the Fuerth displaced persons camp, and in January 1946, to a DP camp in Stuttgart. There he met Fela Fiszel, a fellow Jewish survivor from Bedzin. They were married on March 29, 1947 in Munich. Two years later, the Gipsmans immigrated to the U.S. aboard the SS Marine Falcon.
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