Membership Admission. Search for:. Event details August 5, PM. See all upcoming events. As part of our online Yom HaShoah observance, starting April 21, we will be writing about the Holocaust survivors featured in our photography installation Eyewitness.
Bronia Brandman was born into a family of six children in Jaworzno, Poland. She was eight years old when World War II broke out. Jack eventually made his way to Feldafing Displaced Persons camp, where he married and had a son. Today, Jack has three children, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Bronia Brandman was born in Jaworzno, Poland in When she was 11 years old, she became an orphan.
Her parents and four of her siblings were murdered in Auschwitz. One brother survived. She was sent to Auschwitz in the summer of She survived by switching lines after Dr. Mengele sent her to the gassing line. While in Auschwitz, she became ill with typhus and fell into a month-long coma. Two days after waking, on January 18, , she was forced to go on a death march from Poland to Ravensbruck, Germany in negativedegree weather.
From Ravensbruck, she went to Neustadt-Gleve, where she was liberated. Brandman narrowly escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz by running away from her assigned line upon arrival and joining one of her sisters in another line.
Her sister soon developed typhus, and the Nazis sent her to the gas chambers. Her parents and a brother were also deported to Auschwitz, never to be heard from again. Brandman remained at Auschwitz until January , when she was forced on a death march.
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