place:"Lodz, Poland, Europe" found 3 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Notes: David Dawidovicz was born on July 17, 1924 in Lodz, Poland. Soon after, his family moved to Tel-Aviv, Israel, where they stayed until 1931. At that point, they moved to Paris because of endemic poverty in Tel-Aviv. After four years in France, David, his mother and two of his sisters were expelled from France because they were illegal immigrants, unlike David’s father. David remembers the train journey through Germany, seeing lots of swastikas on buildings and on uniforms. He and his relatives spent six months in Lodz. There, David realized that Jews in Poland weren’t as emancipated as Jews in France. Back to France, David attended school until the war began. In 1941 and 1942, he witnessed several roundups. During the Vel d’Hiv roundup of July 1942, he hid in a small apartment with other people. They were able to hide thanks to French policemen who used to warn Jews. David hid for several weeks. He was eventually arrested in August 1942 by French policemen who took him to the offices of the UJF (Union des Juifs français). This organization gave money to the French police to send Jews to work in the Ardennes (a French region) instead of deporting them to Poland. David worked there until January 1944, at which point he decided to escape and join the resistance. He partook in the liberation of Paris. After the war, David took part in a program to de-Nazify the German youth. He lives in Paris to this day.

Accession No.: WTH-534

Name Access: Dawidovicz, David

Places: Lodz, Poland, Europe

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Lev, Zena - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

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Notes: Zena Lev (née Lipa) was born in Lodz, Poland on April 18, 1925. She had three siblings. When the war broke out in 1939, she and her family were immediately transferred to Krasnik’s ghetto where they were accommodated by the Jewish committee. Zena stayed there until 1942, working in the fields. Her family was deported to Treblinka (?) in 1941. Zena was transferred to Lublin where she worked in a munitions factory until liberation by the Red Army in January 1945. After the war, she returned to Lodz only to discover that her entire family had perished. There she met her future husband, Jacob. They went to Prague, Pilsen and Salzburg in Austria, and in 1946 they move to Bari, Italy, where they got married and had their first child. They were helped by the UNRRA. In 1948, they moved to Israel where Jacob served in the army and they had their second child. In 1953, they moved to Montreal where they had a third child. Together they ran a fruit store; however, adjusting to a new environment wasn’t easy. Zena found that one of her uncle’s survived the Holocaust and was living in Montevideo. Zena and Jacob have one grandson.

Accession No.: WTH-480

Name Access: Lev, Zena

Places: Lodz, Poland, Europe

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Zablow, Lou - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

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Notes: Lou Zablow was born on March 10, 1924 in Lodz, Poland. When he was 11, he joined a Zionist organization that prepared him to make Aliyah. As Germany invaded Poland, Lou’s father was drafted into the Polish army. On March 10, 1940, Lou and his mother were forced to move to the ghetto by three Germans. In the ghetto, Lou joined the Hanoar Hatzioni Zionist settlement. For almost one year, he worked in this agricultural settlement and went to school to prepare for making Aliyah. When Rumkowsky was asked to shut down all the Zionist settlements in the ghetto, Lou was in charge of caring for 35 orphans. For one year, he took care of their health and education. At that point, he was sent to work for a carpenter but, when people in charge of the ghetto learned he had an advanced level of education, he was transferred to do administrative work for several factories. Before being sent to Auschwitz, Lou and his fellow inmates were told by Biebow that they were going to be resettled in Germany. Lou stayed four days in Auschwitz where he evaded several selections before being sent to Lieberose, Sachenhausen, and Mauthausen concentration camps. In April 1945, he was forced on a death march to Gunskirchen concentration camp where he was liberated by the US army. Soon after his liberation, Lou became sick with typhus. He survived and started to work as an interpreter for the US army. He stayed in Linz until 1949 then moved to Montreal. It was so hard for him to make a living in Canada that he considered going back to Europe. Nonetheless, he persevered and managed to start a new life in his new country. Lou Zablow took part in the creation of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center.

Accession No.: WTH-424

Name Access: Zablow, Lou

Places: Lodz , Poland , Europe

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