United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Clara Spector was born near Kiev, Ukraine on May 5, 1924. In July 1941, the Germans invaded her area and she witnessed a mass shooting, during which her father was forced to dig graves. After a few days, her family was told to leave the area on foot. Her father died on the trip. They were sent to Bessarabia. She remembers people being forced onto a bridge and the Germans blowing up the bridge to kill many of those marching. They were ultimately sent to a farm in the Ukraine where Clara's mother died. Clara's siblings also died during the war. She remembers being in a concentration camp, and was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. After the war, she married Morris Silberman. They had a son, Steven, in the Zehlendorf displaced persons camp in 1948. They immigrated to Israel where they had two more children and then came to the United States in 1963.
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Consists of identity papers documenting the post-war life of Clara (Klara) and Morris (Mauriczu) Silberman (later Spector), both Holocaust survivors. Includes copies of the birth certificate for their son, Steven (Schloma), born in 1948 while they were in the Zehlendorf displaced persons camp in Berlin, Clara's naturalization papers and restitution papers.
Spector family papers