Difference between revisions of "Fryda Einsiedler"
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''' | '''Frieda Einsiedler / Frieda Stieglitz''' (F / Poland, 1933-2011), Holocaust survivor | ||
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Frieda Einsiedler (later Frieda Stieglitz) was born May 30, 1933 in Grodzisko Dolne (near Leżajsk), Poland. Daughter of Efraim and Gittel Susswein. Father emigrated to the United States before the war. Mother and the three children did not have time to join him. Frieda was the only one to escape deportation and death. She wandered alone until a Polish family of farmers took good care of her. Approximately four months before the entry of the Soviet army, she was hosted in a Polish convent in Przemysl. She described the nuns as being “very kind” and stated that, although all the children were taught religion, the nuns did not press the Jewish children to become Catholics. | |||
She died June 11, 2011. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, | [[Category:Holocaust Children, 1933 (subject)|1933 Einsiedler]] | ||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, Poland (subject)| | [[Category:Holocaust Children, Poland (subject)|1933 Einsiedler]] | ||
[[Category:Holocaust Children's Earliest Narratives (subject)| | [[Category:Holocaust Children's Earliest Narratives (subject)|1933 Einsiedler]] | ||
[[Category:Hidden Children (subject)| | [[Category:Hidden Children (subject)|1933 Einsiedler]] | ||
Revision as of 09:33, 29 September 2020
Frieda Einsiedler / Frieda Stieglitz (F / Poland, 1933-2011), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Hiding>
- MEMOIRS : The Children Accuse (1946), 156-161
Biography
Frieda Einsiedler (later Frieda Stieglitz) was born May 30, 1933 in Grodzisko Dolne (near Leżajsk), Poland. Daughter of Efraim and Gittel Susswein. Father emigrated to the United States before the war. Mother and the three children did not have time to join him. Frieda was the only one to escape deportation and death. She wandered alone until a Polish family of farmers took good care of her. Approximately four months before the entry of the Soviet army, she was hosted in a Polish convent in Przemysl. She described the nuns as being “very kind” and stated that, although all the children were taught religion, the nuns did not press the Jewish children to become Catholics.
She died June 11, 2011.