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Memoirs of Sara Sala (Frenkiel) Preiss, about her experiences in and after the Holocaust, her books of dedications from 1945–1946, and letters and dcuments associated with her and family members

Memoirs of Sara Sala (Frenkiel) Preiss, about her experiences in and after the Holocaust, her books of dedications from 1945–1946, and letters and dcuments associated with her and family members - memoirs of Sara Frenkiel about her experiences during and after the Holocaust, written after her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1946 (Hebrew translation attached): Bombardment of Piotrków as the war begins; Germans enter; deportations begin in 1940; four of witness's sisters deported in October 1942; witness hides with rest of family during Aktionen; witness's parents, brother, and sister murdered in November 1942;witness stays with relatives; deported to the Ravensbrück camp in 1943; selections; sent to Bergen-Belsen; typhus; liberated by British forces; placed in an orphanage in the Bergen-Belsen displaced-persons camp; sent to Sweden in July 1945; stays in Bergsjö and later in Lövsättra in May 1946; - booklet with Sara Frankel's writings during her stay in Israel, including -- list of important dates such as date of murder of parents (November 20, 1942), liberation (April 15, 1945), reaching Sweden, immigration to Eretz Israel, etc.; -- writings and remarks from 1948–1949; - book of dedications (notebook, contents in handwriting) of Sala Frenkiel with dedications, congratulations, and poems from her friends in the Bergen-Belsen displaced-persons camp in July 1945. Some of the dedications are undated. The notebook also has a dedication written in Sweden in February 1946; - Hebrew translation of article by Roman Wroblewski, published on Facebook, devoted to Sala Frenkiel's diary; translation of writings in the book of dedications attached; - book of dedications of Sala Frenkiel with dedications, congratulations, and poems from her friends in Sweden (Bergsjö and Lövsättra) and Eretz Israel (Jerusalem), January–December 1946, including ddications by Egon and Deli Kux; - letters and notes sent by members of the Frenkiel family, in the Piotrków ghetto (where they were interned or in hiding) to relatives and friends in 1942; - letters from Cyla (Tsirel) Meisner née Frenkiel, in Eretz Israel, to her niece, Sara Frenkiel, in Sweden (1946) and in Israel (1950s and 1960s); - cable from Deli and Egon Kadmon, Kibbutz Ein Gev, on the occasion of Sara Frenkiel's wedding in December 1946; - birth certificate of Sura Laja Frenkiel, born in Piotrków in 1930, issued in Piotrków in 1991; - passport of Sala Frenkiel, issued in Stockholm in April 1946; - school report card of Sala Fränkiel from her term of studies at a Jewish school in Lövsättra, May 1946, signed by Egon Kux; - article, published in a Swedish newspaper, of voyage by sea of a group of child survivors of Bergen-Belsen to Eretz Israel; Sara Frenkiel appears in a photograph attached to the article. Includes Hebrew translation of the article; - registered-nurse diploma of Sara Frenkiel from Hadassah nursing school in Jerusalem, August 1953; - certification, 1981, of Sara Frenkiel's service in the Israel Defense Forces in 1950–1954; - ITS (International Tracing Service) documents associated with Roza Frenkel (Frenkiel), born in Piotrków in 1929; "It was no legend. The experiences of Deli and Egon Kux, 1938–1938," athe story of Egon Kux, subsequently Kadmon, born in 191, and his wife, Deli Adele née Sternberg, born in 1917, by their daughter, Naomi Harmelin, 2012–2014: Participation in Zionist young movements in Vienna (Deli in Blau-Weiss, Egon in Brit-Bilu); leaving Vienna on the eve of Kristallnacht; moving to Denmark for [Zionist] training with [the] Hehaluts [movement]; working in agriculture; caring for children who reached Denmark in 1939 via Youth Aliyah; life under German occupation from April 1940 to October 1943; preparations for deportation of the Jews of Denmark; rescue operation for the Jews of Denmark, moving them to Sweden in October 1943; couple works on a farm in Sweden; daughter, Naomi, born in 1945; survivors reach Sweden at the end of the war and afterward, including child survivors of Bergen-Belsen, most from Piotrków; establishment of children's home in Lövsättra; Egon's activity as principal of children's home school, January 1946–May 1947; couple and daughter immigrate to Eretz Israel illegally in May 1947. Submitter's remarks: The submitter's mother: Sara Sala (Frenkiel) Preiss, born in Piotrków in 1930. Her parents, Akiva Frenkiel and Jeanindella née Jakobowicz, perished. Sara had six siblings: Asher, Esther Etka, Rivka, Feige Fala, Roze, and Bina; all perished. Sara, the sole survivor of her family, immigrated to Israel and married Yisrael Leib Preiss, a survivor of Transnistria.
item Id
15318278
Type of material
Article
Diary
Diploma
Letter
Memoir book
Memoirs
Passport
Personal documents
Telegram
תעודת בית הספר
File Number
12661
Language
Hebrew
Polish
English
Swedish
German
Yiddish
Hungarian
Record Group
O.33 - Testimonies, Diaries and Memoirs Collection
Date of Creation - earliest
1942
Name of Submitter
אסתר גורן פרייס
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
244
Connected to Item
O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust
Form of Testimony
Written testimony