Jewish displaced persons in the Pocking displaced persons camp.
Overview
- Caption
- Jewish displaced persons in the Pocking displaced persons camp.
Pictured (left to right) are Stella Feidel, Shlomo Garber, and [unidentified]. - Date
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1945 - 1948
- Locale
- Pocking [Bayern] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rachel Gluk
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Rachel Gluk
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) POCKING
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Shlomo Garber was born June 10, 1910 in Bialystok, Poland. He had three siblings, two brothers, and a sister. Shlomo and his brother Haim belonged to the Dror youth movement, and the Jewish sports association Hapoel. Haim immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In the mid-1930s Shlomo married Ida, and they had a daughter Sara (b. ca. 1938).
In 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and Shlomo was drafted into the Polish army. He escaped into the woods and joined the partisans for a year, before fleeing to Siberia. Ida and her daughter Sara were confined to the Bialystok ghetto, where Ida is believed to have died. When the ghetto was liquidated in August 1943, Sara was sent to Theresienstadt, then on October 5, 1944 to Auschwitz, where she was killed.
While in Siberia, Shlomo met Stella Feidel, the daughter of Yehutiel Feidel (b. 1898) and Raizel (nee Fisher) Feidel (b. 1898). She was quite talented, having studied singing in Moscow in a school for girls in 1939. At the start of the war, the family was living in Kharkov, Ukraine. Stella hoped that her parents would go with her to Siberia but they refused, so she set out on her own. She spent the war in Uzbekistan, where she worked at a parachute factory for about a year, and was able to receive letters from home.
After the end of the war, Shlomo returned to Bialystok and found that his wife Ida and daughter Sara had not survived. Stella also returned to her hometown, and found that much of her family had been killed as well. Together, Shlomo and Stella made their way to the Pocking displaced persons camp, where they were married. Their daughter Rachel was born there on July 39, 1947. At the beginning of December 1948, the family immigrated to Israel, first living at the Kibbutz Ein Hayam (today ein Carmel). Their second daughter, Shoshana, was born on June 12, 1951 in Tel Aviv, and became a lawyer. Rachel studied music, married, and went on to have two daughters and seven granddaughters. She was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Israeli army for 25 years.
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