Studio portrait of Kuba Weber (nephew to Henryk Graubart).
Overview
- Caption
- Studio portrait of Kuba Weber (nephew to Henryk Graubart).
Kuba perished in the Holocaust. - Date
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Circa 1930 - 1939
- Locale
- Warsaw, Poland?
- Variant Locale
- Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ofer Weisz
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Miriam Graubert Weisz
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- JEWS (POLISH) STUDIO PORTRAITS
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Miriam Graubart was born in the Pocking displaced persons camp on March 10, 1947, to parents Henryk (Herschel) Graubart (b. 1894 in Sochachev, Poland) and Guta (nee Ciechanowska) Graubart (b. September 28, 1912 in Lodz, Poland). Henryk was in the lumber business. He was previously married to a woman named Sula, and the couple did not have any children. Guta was the daughter of Mendel and Miriam Leah, and had four sisters: Bella Morawiecka, (b. 1894), Anna Rossman (b. 1900), Stefa Pozner (b. 1906), and Marilla (Marysia, b. 1909). When Guta was just eight years old, her mother died. In the early 1930s, Guta married Sigmund (Zelig) Kujawaski and they had a child, Ojzer (Olesh), who was born in 1936.
In February 1940, Guta’s family was forced into the Lodz ghetto. In May, the Germans established factories in the ghetto. Guta, who was a seamstress, found work in the Schulka resort sewing evening clothes for the wives of the German occupiers. She was able to keep Olesh with her, and taught him to sew around pre-cut wallets. For this work, they both received an extra portion of soup. During the years that she lived in the ghetto, her father died, and he was given a Jewish burial. She witnessed the deportations of her sisters and other family members on different transports. Guta, Zelig, and Olesh were sent on the last transport from the ghetto to Auschwitz, on August 30, 1944. Upon their arrival, Zelig told her to stay with her friend Sula Citrin, and he would take Olesh. Guta never saw her husband or child again.
While in Auschwitz, Guta was sent to work in a small factory. Around mid-January, as end of the war drew nearer, the Germans began vacating the complex of camps and ordered the prisoners on a death march northwest to Gliwice, some 55 miles away. Guta and her friend Sula were among the thousands of prisoners sent. After liberation, Guta and a cousin went back to Lodz to look for family members, and found that none of her sisters had survived. In Lodz, she met Henryk Graubart.
Henryk had come to Lodz via Warsaw and Lublin with his niece and nephew, Blanka and Avraham. Like Guta, he had been married before the war, but he and his wife had no children. 1944, he had left Poland for Russia, hoping that he could find work and send money home to support his wife, Sula, but he ended up in forced labor in Siberia. After the war, he returned to find that Sula had not survived. He met Guta, who was the cousin of someone he had known in Siberia. They were married, and left Poland. Their first child, Miriam, was born in the Pocking displaced persons camp in 1947. The family immigrated to Israel, where Henryk ran a grocery store. For her army service, Miriam was sent to Kibbutz Magen to teach Hebrew to new immigrants, and it was there that she met her future husband. Norbert Weisz. Miriam and Norbert have three daughters, Lilach, Tal, and Hila.
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- 2020-04-27 00:00:00
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