Mala Weintraub Dorfman - September 15, 2005
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Mala Weintraub Dorfman was born in Łódź, Poland in 1923.
When the war broke out in 1939, Mala and three of her five siblings were sent to
live with their grandmother in the Kozienice ghetto. Mala worked as a nurse in
the ghetto until she was deported to Skarzysko where she worked in an
ammunitions factory for two years. She was then deported to Częstochowa where
she was liberated a year later by the Russians. After the war, Mala returned to
Łódź, married, and was soon reunited with her sisters at Bergen-Belsen. Mala
lived with her husband in Germany until their immigration to the United States
in 1949.
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- Introduction
- Education
- Home Life
- Family
- Entertainment
- Anti-Semitism
- Outbreak of War
- German Occupation
- Kozienice Ghetto
- Kozienice Deportation
- Skarzysko
- Deportation to Skarzysko
- Skarzysko
- Life in Skarzysko
- Punishment in Skarzysko
- Life in Skarzysko II
- Deportation to Częstochowa
- Work in Częstochowa
- Life in Częstochowa
- Liberation
- Russian Occupation
- Łódź
- Fate of Family
- Marriage
- Understanding the Holocaust
- Finding Sisters
- Finding Sisters II
- Immigration to America
- Life in America
- Children
- Return to Poland
- Conclusion
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