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biographical history: Klara Samuels (1927-) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Moses and Rosza Salomon. Moses, a physician, graduated from the University of Kharkov in 1912 with a specialization in bacteriology. He spent World War I practicing medicine in Russia. Her parents met in 1924 and married in February 1926. Klara was an only child. She attended a private Jewish girls school in Warsaw, and was therefore shielded from the anti-Semitism she may have encountered in public school. When the Nazis invaded Poland, a bomb hit the Salomon’s apartment, forcing them to move in with an aunt and uncle. Within a few weeks, Moses decided that the family should flee east into Russia. In late October 1939, Klara and her mother, her aunt, uncle, and cousin Henry, piled into a truck bound for Sarnaki on the Bug River. Her father decided to stay behind to finish putting the plans in place for their intended destination—Vilnius. Though there were several close calls, they managed to make it to Bialystok, where they lived (without Moses) until the spring of 1940, when he was able to join them. The family found out that they would be forced to register as German refugees, and would have to choose between moving further into Russia, staying in the annexed zone, or returning to Poland. Not liking any of the options (as they still planned for Lithuania), they checked the “return” box and traveled to Lida, a small town near the Lithuanian border, hoping for the right moment to sneak in. They were arrested for being suspiciously close to the border and Moses was separated from them and sent to Baranowicze to stand trial. Klara and her mother, after being released, returned to Bialystok to wait for him. To get closer to Baranowicze, Klara and her mother moved to Slonim in September 1940, where Klara once again attended school. Her father was released in late June 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Her father opened a practice and they stayed in Slonim until December, when the rumors of mass shoo…
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identifier: irn518631
title: Klara Salamon papers
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-12-31
record resource structure: The Klara Salamon papers are arranged as a single series.
has or had some members with language: pol
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scope and content: The Klara Salamon papers comprised documents created primarily by Salamon while she was held in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 1943-1945. These papers include a diary made of toilet paper sewn together by Salamon, as well as notes and a birthday card passed between her and a friend, Nina, while both were interned in the camp. In her diary, Klara muses, in four different languages, about her friends and a particular boy named Alek in an adjacent camp whom she was attracted to. During her internment, Klara wrote love notes to Alek, which she passed to him through a friend. Ultimately, the messenger girl and Alek married after the war. Also included in this collection is one post-war document from U.S. Army Captain Dr. John Hollander asking Lieutenant Smith to please take care of Klara and her family, as Klara briefly worked in the Allied hospital set up near Magdeburg. On the basis of this note, Klara, her father, and twelve others were able to leave Germany and enter France.
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