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A group of men, women and children poses in a garden of the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 37229
A group of men, women and children poses in a garden of the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. Miriam Pomerantz is sitting in the center.

A group of men, women and children poses in a garden of the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

Miriam Pomerantz is sitting in the center.

Date
1945 - 1946
Locale
Zeilsheim, Germany
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Zeilsheim -- Daily Life/Families
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miriam Pomerantz Weissman

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Biography
Miriam Weissman (born Michla Pomerantz) is the daughter of Abraham and Chaja. She was born on October 25, 1926 in Konstantyinowo, Poland. She had four older brothers and a sister. Michla lived in the ghetto in Wolkowysk, Belarus from 11/2/42-1/43, and was sent to Auschwitz. She remained in Auschwitz from January 1943 until liberation her liberation in January, 1945 at the age of nineteen. After liberation she stayed in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp before immigrating to the United States on the Marine Perch July 1946.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Miriam Pomerantz Weissman
 
Record last modified: 2014-04-11 00:00:00
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