1/27/24

Golda Ryba

 Golda Lenczner (Ryba) was born in 1931. She was raised by her mother Gela, grandmother and grandfather. Her father, Hersh, went to South America before the war. The family was supposed to join him, but the war broke out and they couldn't get out of Poland.

During the liquidation of the ghetto, Golda was pushed by her mother out of the window of the building where the Germans had gathered the Jews. The girl wandered around the surrounding villages pretending to be Polish. She survived the war. Her mother, grandparents and younger sister Sara were murdered in Treblinka.

When Golda returned to Sokołów after the war, she thought she was the only Jewish survivor. She felt strange here. Eventually she emigrated to Israel. Do you know any relatives of Golda Ryba (maiden name Lenczner)? If so, please let me know.




1/22/24

A Book by Marie-Hélène Blonde

 Marie-Hélène Blonde just published her book in French "UNE ODYSSÉE FAMILIALE. DE STERDYN À PARIS…"

When, in September 1939, they crossed the Bug with four of their children to escape the arrival of the Nazis, Mordko and Ruchla could not imagine the travel that awaited them. The following years saw them successively in Russian-occupied Poland, in a camp in the far Soviet north and in a kolkhoz near the Volga. The end of the war is not yet the end of the peregrinations. After a brief return to Poland, it was the departure towards the west, the camps for displaced persons and finally the arrival in Paris in April 1947. A new life began...

The story is based on the testimonies of the last participants of the trip supplemented by archival documents which are gradually becoming available.

https://www.bookelis.com/biographies/59694-Une-odyssee-familiale.html#/22-type_livre-papier