Rachel Ejber Birnbaum photographs

Rachel Ejber Birnbaum photographs 

Rachel Birnbaum (1926-2013) was born Rachel Ejber in Włodawa, Poland on July 11, 1925. During the Holocaust she survived the Włodawa ghetto and was deported to the Sobibor killing center. Shortly after arriving at Sobibor, she managed to escape into the woods and be hidden by a Polish peasant family. Her cousin Sruel Bajtelman (1923-1945) was a Jewish resistance fighter who survived the Włodawa ghetto but was murdered by Poles soon after returning home in 1945. Rachel’s relatives Isaac Ejber and Jacob Rajs were resistance fighters who were killed by the Germans in Adampol. Her relative Ester Rajs perished in Sobibor. 

Rachel Ejber Birnbaum photographs