Testimony of Salomea (Tendler) Siedman, born in Krzeszowice, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Skala, forests, Auschwitz, hidden by a Polish family and other places
From a economically secure family.
German occupation, 1939, her older brother's escape to the Soviet Union; her sister's move to the Gorecki family, who are Polish; witness and her family move to her grandmother in Skala; deportation of her brother and father; murder of her mother in her hiding place in the attic; finds a hiding place in a forest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; escape from a deportation train to the Gorecki family; life in hiding in a barn; liberation by the Red Army, winter 1945.
Emigration to the United States; aliya to Israel, 1971.
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item Id
4533343
First Name
Salomea
Last Name
Zeidman
Maiden Name
Tendler
Date of Birth
03/05/1918
Place of Birth
Krzeszowice, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives