My families from the East
​Family genealogy
Title 2
7- In Aunt Hendel's family, one daughter will remain alive: Perele Fajgenblatt, the mother of Myriam Lipnowski
We learned from Myriam, her daughter, the terrible story of her mother.
She worked alongside my uncle Jack in the Skarzysko-Kamienna slave munitions factory, then in Czestochowa before arriving at Auschwitz in January 1945.
My father had a special fondness for her because she bore his mother's first name, Perele, which would become my middle name. To distinguish her from her cousin Perele who settled in Canada, my father called her Perele of Australia.
From right to left, top: Perele from Australia, her deported sister and brother, bottom: her cousin (survivor) and her deported sister-in-law.
Perele and her sister before the war
His story
Perele was 19 years old when the war broke out. She was married to Abraham Frucht, Bronia's brother.
Like all the Jews in the city, the couple had to enter the Jedrzejow Ghetto, which began in the spring of 1940. He was a policeman in the Ghetto, and they were among those who were spared deportation.
She was sent with her husband and son to Skarzysko in February 1942 and remained there until May 1944.
She was pregnant when she arrived and gave birth to a baby, which a Nazi promptly smashed against a wall.
She remained affected by it for the rest of her life.
Supported in the labor camp by Uncle Jack and friends, she kept herself alive.
And like him, she was sent to a factory camp in Czestochowa, as the Russians advanced.
In November 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz, from where she was liberated by the Red Army.
She presumably returned to Jedrszjow where she reunited with cousins.
She was among those who passed through Wroclaw (Breslau).
His daughter, Myriam, told us that Rafal Kalowska was the best "goy" friend of Abraham Frucht, her mother's first husband, who perished in deportation.
When Perele found himself in Wroclaw, a good friend of Rafal arrived with a young Jew from Grodziec, Abram Lipnowski.
Perele and Abram fell in love, married, and had Myriam on November 19, 1946. In the meantime, they had left for Munich, where they settled in March 1946. They stayed there for three years. They emigrated to Marseille, where they boarded a ship for Australia on March 2, 1949, the ship "Ville d'Amiens".