Portrait of Halina Kleiner with her American liberators in Prachatiche, Czechoslovakia.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 55327

Date: June 1945
Locale: Prachatice, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale: Prachatitz
Czech Republic
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Czechoslovakia -- Atrocities: Burial/Exhumation -- Volary
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Halina Kleiner

Biography: Halina Kleiner was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1929. After the German invasion of Poland, she and her family were forced into a ghetto. However, she and her father managed to escape prior to its liquidation. Halina obtained false papers and joined her grandmother in Bedzin. From there she was in several work and concentration camps in Poland and Germany, eventually being taken to Greenberg. As Soviet forces approached Greenberg, the Germans sent its female prisoners on a death march. Most died en route, but Halina was among those who survived what is known as the death march and was liberated by American troops in Prahatiche, Czechoslovakia. She and her husband later immigrated to the United States.
Keyword: DEATH MARCH SURVIVORS
DEATH MARCHES (HELMBRECHTS)
GROUP PORTRAITS
JEWS
SOLDIERS
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
SURVIVORS
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Halina Kleiner

Source Record ID: Collections: RG-50.002*0087
: Record last modified: 2012-12-13 00:00:00
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