Collage of photographs of Franka (nee Kempinski) and Sewek Winograd in Paris, with their daughter Liliane.
Overview
- Caption
- Collage of photographs of Franka (nee Kempinski) and Sewek Winograd in Paris, with their daughter Liliane.
- Date
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Circa 1947
- Locale
- Paris, [Seine] France
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Liliane Lwow Maier
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Liliane Lwow Maier
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Liliane (nee Winograd) was born on November 11, 1947 in Paris, France to Franka Kempinski (b. 8 March 1920, Lodz, Poland) and Sewek Winograd (b. 1910, Russia), who was a textile merchant. Franka was the daughter of Izaak Wolf Kempinski (b. 1882 to Breina) and Laja (nee Byster, b. 1882). Franka had five siblings; Janek, Guta (b. 1912), Meniek (b. 1916), Roza (b. 1918) and Bala. The Kempinski family was religious, and lived in a building comprised completely of observant Jews in Lodz. All the children went to a private school, where they were taught German. The Lodz ghetto was created in February 1940, and Liliane’s grandparents, together with four of their children, Guta, Meniek, Roza and Bala lived in one apartment together with their cousin Basia Weinberger de Taube and her family. Meniek succumbed to pleurisy soon after due to the deplorable conditions. Soon after Guta also died. Roza and Bala attained ghetto work permits, which provided them with some protection.
Franka and her brother Janek had moved to Lvov prior to the outbreak of the war, in order for Franka to study medicine. Immediately after the outbreak of war in Poland on 1st September 1939, Jews began pouring into Lvov to escape the Germans. However, on June 1st, 1940, the Soviet government decided to deport approximately 10,000 Jews to Siberia, including Franka and Janek. There, Franka and Janek lived on a Kolkhoz and were put to work cutting down trees in the woods. Eventually, Franka managed to secure better working conditions for herself working the kitchen. On June 22, 1941 Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union. As a result, the Soviet government released Polish citizens and allowed them to move elsewhere. Franka and Janek managed to obtain tickets to Kazakhstan, boarding a train in Novosibirsk. They arrived in Lenger, Kazakhstan, where Franka together helped create a local school and worked as a teacher.
After the war, Franka and Janek returned to Lodz, where they discovered the majority of their family had perished. They planned to relocate to Uruguay where their maternal uncle William Byster lived. He had sent tickets for all his surviving nieces and nephews. /on route to Uruguay, Franka and Janek stopped over in Paris, where they went to eat at a Jewish restaurant called Madame Rose. There, Franka met her future husband, Sewek Winograd, who had come to Paris after the war as a widow. His first wife Chaika Cynamon had perished in the Holocaust. They struck up a friendship, and were married on December 12, 1946 with Janek’s approval. Sewek began a new business selling textile on Rue de Turenne in Paris. Liliane was born in 1947. Liliane married in France, and immigrated to Israel in 1970, where she studied law and worked for the Israeli government. She has 3 children, and 7 grandchildren all living in Israel.
Though Franka and Janek survived their parents both perished. Izaak Wolf died of hunger in the Lodz ghetto on March 26, 1944, and Laja was murdered in Auschwitz. Their siblings Guta and. Meniek died in the ghetto, and their sister Roza was deported to the Baltics and never returned.
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