us-005578-irn523363
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Helena Nunberg (born Chaja Bajla Glidman, 1911-1995) was born on February 19, 1911, in Łódź, Poland. Her father, Izrael Glidman, who was a “mohel” (ritual circumciser), died in 1926 and her mother, Dwojra Gutman Glidman, who was a seamstress, took care of Helena and her younger brother, Abram (b.1914). In 1936 Helena married Józef Lisek. In May 1940 she and her family were forced into the Łódź ghetto. Dwojra Glidman died in the ghetto in 1941. Helena, her husband, and her brother, Abram, were deported to the ghetto in Czestochowa, Poland, on October 21, 1942. On January 13, 1945, the Germans started to evacuate the camp and transfer prisoners to Buchenwald concentration camp. Only the prisoners who had hidden themselves, Helena and Józef Lisek among them, were liberated by the Red Army on Jan. 17, 1945.Abram was transferred to Buchenwald and perished there in 1945. Helena’s and Jòzef’s marriage ended in divorce. After the liberation Helena settled in Zabrze where she met her future husband, Marek Nunberg. They moved to Wrocław and later to Poznań. In December 1972 Helena, her husband and their daughter, Dorota, left Poland and settled in Denmark. Marek Nunberg (born Mordechai Nunbergier, 1902-1974) was born on June 24, 1902 in Wolbrom, Poland. Marek’s father, Chaim Nunbergier, was a horse dealer and his wife, Chaja, took care of their eight children. Marek had four brothers and three sisters: Artur Alter (b. 1913), Wolf (b. 1911), Mosze, Menachem, Lea Laja, Fajga, and Mala. Lea and her husband, Dov Ber Frydberg, immigrated to Palestine in 1933. Fajga and her husband, Natan, immigrated to South Africa, before the war. Wolf and his wife, Karola, survived the war in the USSR. Arthur survived the war in hiding, but his first wife, Sala, and their son, Jurek, perished. Mala and her husband, Józef, were deported to a death camp and perished. Menachem Nunbergier together with his wife, Nacha, and two children perished as well. Mosze fought the Germans as a member of …
has beginning date: 1911-01-01
has end date: 1947-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: yid
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 513
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn523363
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The papers consist of pre-war and post-war photographs of Marek Nunberg and his family in Poland as well as documents relating to Marek Nunberg's service in the Polish Army during the war.
title: Dorota Grinberg papers