Bela Shakhmanovitz nee Shakhmanovitz was born in Miedzno, Poland, 1922 to Yaakov and Ita. She was single. Prior to WWII she lived in Miedzno, Poland. During the war she was in Bergen Belsen, Germany. Bela survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.