Leonia Akerman (F / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor

Leonia Akerman (F / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor

Jankiel Akerman (M / Poland, 1935), Holocaust survivor

• Leonia (Lunia) was one of Tehran Children interviewed in Palestine in 1943 (#111).

• KEYWORDS : <Refugees> <Soviet Union> <Iran> <Tehran Children> <Israel>

Biography

Leonia (Lunia) and Jankiel were born in Warsaw, Poland. Children of Mejer and Helena. Father had a clothing shop in Wolowa St., Warsaw. The family fled to the Soviet Union. The children arrived in Israel on February 18, 1943.

Book : Children of Zion (1994; ET 1998), by Henryk Grynberg

The book is based on 73 testimonies – "Protocols" – taken and registered from the children immediately after their arrival to the Promised Land. The protocols of the children's testimonies are in the archives of the Hoover Institution, Documentation Box 197, Folders 1-4, Polish Information Center - Jerusalem, at Stanford University, in the collection "Poland - Ministry of Information and reports of Jewish Deportees." They were the basis of Grynberg's book, which enfolds the historical events of this less explored chapter of the Holocaust through the eyes of the little Jewish refugees from Poland and their struggle for survival in the Soviet Union.