Fryda Einsiedler

Fryda Einsiedler / Fieda Stieglitz (F / Poland, 1935), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Hiding>

• MEMOIRS : The Children Accuse (1946), 156-161

Biography

Fryda Einsiedler was born 1935 in Godzick (near Lancut), Poland. Father emigrated to the United States. Mother and children did not have time to join him. When Fryda remained alone, she wandered until a Polish family of farmers took good care of her.

Fryda Einsiedler (later Fieda Stieglitz), born in 1933, received a great deal of assistance from Polish farmers in the vicinity of her village of Grodzisko Dolne near Leżajsk, before she arrived at the convent in Przemyśl approximately four months before the entry of the Soviet army. 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.