Ben Zion Kalb (later Colb, 1910-1973) was born in 1910 in Strzyzow, Poland. His father, Reb Abraham Kalb, worked as a shochet, and he had three siblings, a younger brother, Mendel, and two sisters, Malka (later Halpern) and Slava. Slava immigrated to Palestine before World War II. In Krakow in 1937, Ben Zion met Clara Lieber (b. October 20, 1911 in Stryj, Poland) and they were engaged in the summer ...

Mayer Abraham Stern was born on 19 June 1894 in Stryj (Ukraine). He studied pre-med and economics at Vienna University and became a cosmetics producer and dealer, owning a factory in Warsaw. By 1920 he had moved to Berlin where, on 21 April, he married Flora Lachs, born in Warsaw on 14 May 1899. She held a degree in chemistry from Warsaw University. The couple was well-to-do and settled in a good neighbourhood ...

Miniature teapot, sugar bowl, pitcher, teacup, and tray given to Elzbieta Lusthaus by her maternal grandmother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff, when they were living in Tarnow, Poland, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elzbieta hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans ...

Elzbieta Lusthaus was born on May 15, 1938, in Krakow, Poland to Edmund and Helena (Amkraut) Lusthaus. Edmund was born in Brzozow on August 2, 1899, and attended medical school at Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov. Helena was born in Przemysl on June 8, 1911, but grew up in Sanok and worked as an assistant pharmacist. Edmund and Helena married on May 17, 1936, and settled in the resort town of Iwonicz. ...