Sara Zyskind / Sara Rachela Plagier (F / Poland, 1927-1995), Holocaust survivor

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Sara Rachela Plagier / Sara Zyskind (Poland, 1927-1995) was a child survivor of the Holocaust.

Autobiography: Stolen Years (1977).

  • <Poland> <Lodz Ghetto> <Auschwitz> <Mittelstein>

NOTES : Sara Rachela Plagier was born in Lodz on March 26, 1927 to a a well-known Jewish family of in­dus­tri­al­ists. At the age of 12, she and her family were forced to live in the Lodz ghetto. Her mother died in 1940. She and her father mutually supported each other during the following years, successfully evading arrest and de­porta­tion, until he died during the Passover of 1943. Upon the "liquidation" of the Ghetto in August 1944, at the age of 16, Zyskind was deported to Auschwitz, and from there to other labor camps. After liberation she She met and married fellow Lodz survivor Eliezer Zyskind. The couple emigrated to Palestine, where they lived ever after.