Testimony of Sabina (Sperber) Kuperschmidt, born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, Czystylow and hidden by a Pole
Testimony of Sabina (Sperber) Kuperschmidt, born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, Czystylow and hidden by a Pole
Testimony
Testimony of Sabina (Sperber) Kuperschmidt, born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, Czystylow and hidden by a Pole
From a traditional, financially secure family that owns a printing house; attends a Polish elementary school; draft of her father into the Polish Army.
German occupation, September 1939; escape to Tarnopol with her mother and brother; life under Soviet rule until 1942; German occupation; ghetto life; labor of her mother and brother outside the ghetto; labor of her mother in Czystylow labor camp; escape to her mother; escape from the Czystylow camp with her mother and brother, 21 June 1943; hidden in the courtyard of Jan Nakonieczny, a Pole recognized afterwards as a Righteous among the Nations; life in hiding; liberation by the Red Army, 09 September 1944.
Return to Krakow; move to Lodz, 1945; life in Lodz until 1950; marriage, 1949; aliya to Israel, 1950.
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item Id
5731043
First Name
Sabina
Last Name
Kuperschmidt
Kupershmidt
Sperber
Maiden Name
Shperber
Date of Birth
10/04/1926
Place of Birth
Krakow, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives