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Friends and relatives celebrate the wedding David Lorber Rolnik and Malka Milchtajch in the Tempelhof displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 30243

Friends and relatives celebrate the wedding David Lorber Rolnik and Malka Milchtajch in the Tempelhof displaced persons camp.

Pictured left to right (front row) Berish Stern, Cirel Neigerboren Stern, Hershel Statman and unidentified. Second row: Ester Bajla Rolnik, Michel Michtajch Tenembaum, Moshe Tenembaum, Third row: Chava Rolnik, Tzvi Vikelman, Chana Rolnik, Leibl Milchtajch, Ester Oksman, Abraham Lorber Rolnik, Sonja Rolnik and Pinchas Rolnik.

Date
1947 December 04
Locale
Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale
Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Berlin -- Tempelhof
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Blima R. Lorber

About This Photograph

Biography
Bluma Lorber is the daughter of David Lorber Rolnik and Malka Milchtajch Lorber Rolnik. Malka was born in Chelm, Poland on May 16, 1922 to Bluma and Berish Milchtajch. Her parents were very religious, and Malka was the youngest of eight children. Malka was a writer and poetess, and her earliest poems were published when she was still a young child. After the start of World War II, Malka fled to Eastern Poland together with several siblings. She soon as deported to Siberia and spent the war in slave labor. After returning to Poland she discovered that both her parents, as well as two siblings, Henna and Iossel, had perished in the Holocaust. She then moved to Berlin where she met and married a childhood friend, David Lorber Rolnik. Her brothers Leon and Jacob survived.

David Lorber was born in Chelm, Poland on March 4, 1920 to Szyja Rolnik and Rajzla Lorber. He had two sister Debora (b. 3/20/1925), and Chana (b. 12/25/1923) and three brothers Abraham (b. 1918), Jacob (b. 1/5/1927) and Manys (b. 3/18/1929). After the start of World War II, David also fled and hid in forests and small towns. He once returned to Chelm to try to rescue his mother and, sisters and two younger brothers. Sadly when they arrived at the Bug River, they could not get on the boat. He hoped they could cross the following day, but they returned to Chelm and never were seen again. David was then was sent to a Soviet labor camp where he worked cutting labor. After the war he returned to Chelm to look for family. He could not find members of his own family he learned that Malka had survived and had gone to Berlin. He went to Tempelholf to find her and they married on December 4, 1947.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Blima R. Lorber
 
Record last modified: 2015-07-01 00:00:00
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