Portrait of Zippora Golumb in Heidenheim displaced persons camp.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of Zippora Golumb in Heidenheim displaced persons camp.
- Date
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1948
- Locale
- Heidenheim, [Baden-Wuerttemberg] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Zippora Golumb Pilosof
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Zippora Golumb Pilosof
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Zippora (Feiga) Golomb (later Pilosof) was born on February 5, 1941 to David Golomb (b. Vilna) and Zvia (nee Rochman) Golumb (b. 1919 in Postawy, Poland). She was an only child. David’s parents were Yehudit and Shimon Golumb. He was also an only child and worked in the moving business, initially using a horse and wagon and later driving a truck. Zvia was the daughter of Avram Rochman and Fania "Fanny" (nee Friedman) Rochman. She had three sisters: Rachel, Devorah, and Raya. All of the sisters went to Vilna to pursue an education.
German forces invaded Poland in 1939. In July 1941, Zipporah, her parents, maternal grandparents, and her Aunt Rachel were sent to the ghetto in Postawy. Local residents denounced her father as a Communist, and he was shot. David’s parents were sent to the ghetto in Vilna and were shot at Ponary that same summer. Zippora’s mother disappeared through unknown circumstances, leaving behind Zippora with her grandparents, Aunt Rachel and her husband. When they heard that the ghetto was to be burned, they escaped to the forests. Zipporah, who was only 6 months old at the time, was carried out in a knapsack fashioned by her grandfather. In fact, the ghetto was burned at the end of 1942. The family stayed in the forest, enduring great cold and hunger, until the end of 1944, when they were liberated by the Russians.
They returned to Postawy, and though initially their home was inhabited by Russians, the Russians evacuated and they were allowed to move back in. Within a couple of months, Raya and Devorah returned to join them. From Postowy, they moved to Vilna, then went by train to Lodz, then Szczecin. They crossed illegally into Berlin, then made their way to the Heidenheim DP camp, where they remained for two years, until they were able to immigrate to Israel. They left Marseilles on the ship "Atzmaut" and arrived in Haifa in 1949. They were initially sent to an immigrants’ camp in Pardes Hanna, but they soon moved to Jaffa. Zippora attended school in Givaty Aliya, and later went to high school in Jaffa. After finishing high school, she enrolled in a commercial school in Tel Aviv, and secured employment as a secretary. She was married on July 14, 1959 to a Bulgarian survivor from Sofia, who had also come to Israel in 1949. They had two children and several grandchildren.
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