If my heart didn't break then
Jean Beller's memoir describes Jean's childhood and adolescence in Poland; her experiences as a student of elementary education in Tel Aviv, Palestine; her return to Poland before the outbreak of World War II; conditions inside the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her experiences with Chaim Rumkowski; her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage in the ghetto; her attempts to hide when the ghetto was evacuated; the death of her parents and a brother; her deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps; and her life in the United States after the war. Jean Beller (née Genia Bryl, d. 10 Oct. 1993) was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. During the Holocaust she was a prisoner at Auschwtiz. Jean immigrated to the United States in 1947.
- EHRI
- Archief
- us-005578-irn504244
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
- Personal narratives.
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