Hanka Gorenstein papers

Hanka Gorenstein papers 

Hanka Gorenstein (1923-2007) was born Chana Piterman in Osowa, Poland to merchants Meir Piterman and Sara Piterman (nee Erlichgrecht) and was raised in Łuck (now Lutsk, Ukraine). She attended the university in Lwów and happened to be on a university trip to Kamieniec Podolski (now Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ukraine) when Operation Barbarossa began. She returned to Łuck and was forced into the ghetto with her family. She survived the liquidation of the ghetto, but her family was murdered there. She lived under an assumed identity and worked as a farmhand in the Wołyń region (now Volhynia, Ukraine). After the war she married Josef Gorenstein in Vienna, and the couple emigrated to Israel. 

Hanka Gorenstein papers