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| From Piotrków in Poland. Year 1942, they moved (from the ghetto area) to the carpentry factory (called Bugaj) in their hometown. They were thus among the 1,800 lucky "drawers" as they were not deported like the majority of the ghetto residents (more than 220000) to the Treblinka death camp in October 1942. Nov-1944 to Ravensbrück - actually it was December 2 according to the German list. March 1945 to Bergen-Belsen - that's right. Bergen-Belsen was taken over by the British forces on April 15, 1945. About the rest of the family, we know that the mother and a brother were taken to Auschwitz, and the father to Buchenwald. Then a summary, which is a repetition of similar accounts of women who came to Sweden with UNRRA's White Boats: Know nothing about the family's fate. |
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| Nov-1944 to Ravensbrück - actually it was December 2 according to the German list. |
The story of the Holocaust of the Jews of Piotrków, in Swedish, was written by a Swedish doctor on July 15, 1945. Two sisters, Mania and Hania, born in 1921 and 1922, were brought to the port of Stockholm from Lübeck by the UNRRA White Ships. Does anyone know them? What happened to them?
I just received a call from Hania Izraelowicz's son. He lives in Stockholm. He told me about the later history of Hania and Mania, his mother and her sister (his aunt). His father, also from Piotrków, is Szpiro.
The picture above with many names is from a long list of the 271 (or more) female workers who were sent from the Piotrków Trybunalski factories to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. All on the list are women. There are several children, mainly girls, on the list, many as young as 3 years old, thus born in the Piotrków Ghetto. A similar German list exists for men from the three factories who were then separated from their families and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Numbers 116 and 117 on the list are the sisters Izraelewicz, Hanka, and Mania. then 22 and 23 years old. I cannot find their parents on this list...
They ended up like the other women in the Ravensbrück camp and had to work there. The front in the west advanced east, and now the Germans have once again been forced to empty the camp and move the prisoners. For the Ravensbrück prisoners, it became Bergen-Belsen.
All of this has been recorded by a Swedish doctor, Rut Johansson, at a Swedish hospital in Sigtuna.
