Sheila Bernard (Poland, 1936-2007), Holocaust survivor

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Sheila Bernard / Sala Perec (F / Poland, 1936-2007), Holocaust survivor

  • KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Chełm Ghetto> <Hidden Children> / <Dornstat Orphanage>

Biography

Sheila Bernard was born in Chełm, Poland in 1936. They lived in the Chelm Ghetto. The father was killed. Sheila and her mother fled the Ghetto and survived in hiding with the help of a Polish policeman. Within a year of the war’s end Sheila’s mother died of a pulmonary embolism. An agency locating Jewish orphans found and took care of Sheila in Dornstat, Germany, for two years. In 1947, at age 11, Sheila immigrated to Israel where she married her husband and had a daughter before immigrating to the United States in 1963.

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