Irena Peritz papers

Irena Peritz papers 

Irena Peritz was born in 1928 in Borysław (now Ukraine) to Jozef (1896‐1991) and Rozalia Koretz (1897‐ 1984). She lived in Warsaw with her parents and sister Olga and moved to Lvov and then Borysław following the German invasion of Poland. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the family was forced into the Borysław ghetto and then the Borysław labor camp. They survived the last months of the war in hiding. Irena moved to Canada in 1949. Janka and Niuta Teicher lived in Borysław with their parents. They were forced to vacate their house in 1941 and went into hiding. In 1943, after being denounced, they were taken to the Dachówczarnia labor camp in Drohobycz. When the family was selected for further deportation, Janka, Niuta, and their parents committed suicide. 

Irena Peritz papers