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'''Sheila Bernard / Sala Perec''' (Poland, 1936-2007) | '''Sheila Bernard / Sala Perec''' (F / Poland, 1936-2007), Holocaust survivor | ||
* | * KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Chełm Ghetto> <Hidden Children> / <Dornstat Orphanage> | ||
== Biography == | |||
* [https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/sheila-bernard USHMM "Meet Holocaust Survivors"] | * [https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/sheila-bernard USHMM "Meet Holocaust Survivors"] | ||
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. | |||
==External links== | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, 1936 (subject)|1936 Bernard]] | [[Category:Holocaust Children, 1936 (subject)|1936 Bernard]] | ||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, Poland (subject)|1936 Bernard]] | |||
[[Category:Hidden Children (subject)|1936 Bernard]] | [[Category:Hidden Children (subject)|1936 Bernard]] |
Latest revision as of 14:39, 28 September 2020
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.