us-005578-irn739601
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Cywia (Sylvia) Perelmuter was born on January 20, 1935, to Isak, born in 1903, and Chaja Wolfman in Łódź, Poland. She joined older sister, Dora (Doris), who was born in 1927. Her father worked in a wholesale flour and sugar cooperative. On September 1, 1940, Germany invaded Poland. Łódź was occupied and renamed Litzmannstadt. In February, the Jews were forced into a small section of the city that was closed in by barbed wire. All residents were required to work. Her father delivered flour by horse and buggy to the bakeries and her mother and Dora worked at the women’s underwear factory. Sylvia at first was considered too young to work and went to school, but she later joined her mother and sister in the bra and corset factory. In the spring of 1944, the Germans decided to destroy the ghetto and deport the residents to killing centers. They retained a small group of about 800 workers to gather and sort the leftover belongings for shipment to Germany. The Rozines were supposed to be deported, but they disobeyed orders and stayed. Cywia hid with eight to twelve other children, while their parents worked cleaning out the ghetto. One day, German soldiers discovered the children and took them to their headquarters. After a long day and a lot of talking which Cywia did not understand, the chldren were taken to the factories to be with their parents. By August, the ghetto was nearly empty. The workers heard that more German soldiers were arriving, and, believing that they were to be killed, they all went into hiding in the ghetto. The ghetto was liberated by the Soviet Army on January 19, 1945. After the Germans left, the Poles entered the ghetto to take the possessions and belongings that had been left behind. The Perelmuter’s ghetto apartment was left with only a few photographs. Cywia heard one of the Poles exclaim: “Look how many are still left over.” The family moved to another part of the city. Isak re-established his flour and sugar business, with credit from people …
date: circa 1923-1947
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record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: The Sylvia Rozines papers are arranged as a single folder.
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scope and content: The Sylvia Rozines papers primarily contain photographs of the Perelmuter family and their relatives in Łódź, Poland before the Holocaust. They also include photographs taken in the Foehrenwald and Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camps after the Holocaust and an identification card issued to Sylvia at Bad Reichenhall. Photographs depict Sylvia, her parents Izak Mendel Perelmuter and Chaya Wolfman Perelmuter, and her sister Dora Perelmuter Galek. They also depict Izak’s brothers Luzer and Haskel, their wives Andzia and Chana, Andzia and Luzer’s son Monek, and Izak’s sister Itka. Additional photographs depict Chaya’s parents Cyrla and Wolf Wolfman and sisters Rose Wolfman Hochgelernten and Sura Wolfman Krac. They also show Sylvia’s husband David Rozines and other relatives including Esther Perelmuter, Mina (Mary) Hochgelernten Blum, and Label Wolfman.
title: Sylvia Rozines papers