us-005578-irn61390-irn73583
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
biographical history: Abe Fingerhut was born on December 27, 1910, in Łódź, Poland, to Samuel and Chana Fingerhut. He was the second of four children, an older and younger sister, and a brother Josef. They were from a shtetl, Averchek (?), a small town with a large Jewish population, and had relocated to Łódź for job opportunities in the large textile industry. As a child, Abe had been recruited to sing with the Yiddish theater star, Molly Picon, and in Łódź, he sang at the Reform synagogue. Abe attended a Jewish high school and spoke Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, German, and Russian. He worked in the textile industry as a tailor. He met his wife in 1930, but they could not marry until her older sister, who had left for Palestine, wed in Tel Aviv. The family had Zionist sympathies and in 1933, Abe’s younger sister immigrated to Palestine, joining an aunt and uncle already there. Abe and his wife had a son Josek, born on July 8, 1939. They lived in a mixed neighborhood in Łódź and were connected to both the Jewish and Polish societies. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Jews in Łódź began to experience persecution almost immediately. In February 1940, the ghetto was created. Abe and his family were put in the ghetto, where Abe worked in the ghetto textile industry. On May 1, 1940, the ghetto was sealed with barbed wire fencing. On July 9, 1941, Josek, age 2, died. When the ghetto was being evacuated, Abe attempted to bribe a guard to take care of his parents. Abe remained in Łódź until the day before the ghetto was liquidated on August 4, 1944, when he was sent to Auschwitz. On September 10, 1944, Abe was deported to Siegmar-Schoenau labor camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, and assigned prisoner number 26495. In January 1945, the prisoners were forced to march to Hohenstein-Ernstthal labor camp. The camp was evacuated in April and the prisoners marched toward Flossenbürg. On May 7, 1945, the day Germany surrendered, Abe was liberated by Soviet forces in Luditz (Zluti…
conditions of use: Copyright Holder: Diane Finger
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1946-01-01
has or had holder: us-005578
type: RecordSet
has or had some members with language: pol
has record set type: Item
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-12-31
scope and content: The collection includes a photograph of wedding at the Lampertheim displaced persons camp, presided over by Abe Fingerhut, Abe Fingerhut's displaced persons identification card, and one meal ticket. Abe Fingerhut was in the Łódź ghetto and survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and Flossenbürg.
title: Abe Fingerhut papers
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has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-ghettos/513
identifier: irn73583
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn61390-irn73583/acquisitions/1
record resource extent: folder 1
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
is or was included in: us-005578-irn61390