Rose Silberberg Skier papers

Rose Silberberg Skier papers 

Rose Silberberg Skier (1934- ) was born Rozia Silberberg in Jaworzno, Poland, to Mojžesz (Mosche) Silberberg (1903-1944) and Felicia (Faigel) Klapholz Silberberg (1913-1943). Her family was relocated to the Srodula-Sosnowiec ghetto after the German invasion, but her father found a Polish woman, Stanisława Cicha, who let the family live in the chicken coop in the back of her house in Sosnowiec. When their hiding place was found in February 1944, Silberberg traveled to Neisse, Germany posing as the daughter of her aunt Sara Wachsman, both passing as Gentiles. They lived in a convent where Wachsman found work. After liberation, they found no relatives with whom to stay in Poland, so they returned to Germany to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. Before leaving Poland, Silberberg learned from Cicha that her parents and sister Mala (1939-1943) had been killed at Auschwitz. She immigrated to the United States in 1951, married Lester Skier, and lived in Queens. 

Rose Silberberg Skier papers