Daniel Inbar / Daniel Bursztyn (M / Poland, Lithuania, 1932), Holocaust survivor
Daniel Inbar / Daniel Bursztyn (M / Poland, Lithuania, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- One of the two Kovno Boys, who escaped from the train to Auschwitz
- KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Refugees> <Lithuania> <Kovno Ghetto> <Dachau> <Fugitives> <Street Children> -- <Germany> <France> <Israel>
- MEMOIRS : Fun Letsten Hurbn (1946-49) -- The Root and the Bough (1949), 272-276
Biography
Daniel Bursztyn (Daniel Inbar) was born October 28, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Michael Bursztyn, an established journalist. After the German invasion, the family moved to Kovno, Lituania. On August 1941, they were obliged to move into the ghetto. Daniel was employed in a workshop. At the liquidation of the Ghetto, he was separated from his parents. He was selected as one of the 131 Kovno Boys, but escaped from the train to Auschwitz. He survived pretending to be Polish under false identity (Jan Janovitch). After liberation, he learned that his father perished at Dachau, whereas his mother survived. Mother and son reunited in Germany and emigrated to Israel in 1948.
USHMM Oral Interview
Daniel Inbar, born in October 1932 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses his family life; the outbreak of war in September 1939; his family moving to Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania; anti-Jewish decrees upon the German arrival; moving to the ghetto in Vilyampolskaya Sloboda or Slobodka (Vilijampole); life and conditions in the ghetto; actions in the ghetto; abolishment of the ghetto in July 1942; arriving in Landsberg; jumping from a train heading to Auschwitz; creating a new personal history with a new name, Jan Janovitch; receiving assistance from a peasant named Costira; the Russian arrival; traveling to Łódź, Poland in February 1946 to search for his family; reuniting with his mother; joining Hashomer Hatzair; being taken to France in 1947 to prepare for immigration to Palestine; arrival in Israel in April 1948; and reuniting with Teresa Costira in 1983.