, Gusta

Birth Name Gusta
Married Name Weitzner, Gusta
Gender female

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage     Herman Weitzner married Gusta

 
Transport September, 1942 Bełżec Vernichtungslager Belzec Extermination camp, Bełżec, powiat Tomaszowski, województwo Lubelskie, Polska Lea Weitzner, he mother, Gusta, and her grandmother were deported

Event Note

Lea Weitzner´s mother, Gusta, pushed Lea out through a narrow opening in the side of the train car.
Leah Weitzner survived being thrown from a cattle car destined for death, and made found her way back to her grandfather and an uncle, Mundek, who had escaped the deportation.

Event Note

Lea Weitzner uncle, Mundek, had lived in Mandatory Palestine, but had come back to introduce his fiancée to his family and got caught in the war.
He was determined to save Lea, and acquired false papers for her, and taught her Christian prayers and customs.
Lea Weitzner lived with the Plauszewski family, and then with a relative, Stefania Gos, whose husband was a commander in the Polish underground.
She survived three years of lying about her identity, while living with Catholic families in Poland,

 
Death   Bełżec Vernichtungslager Belzec Extermination camp, Bełżec, powiat Tomaszowski, województwo Lubelskie, Polska  

 

Families

Married Husband Weitzner, Herman
  Children
  1. Weitzner, Lea

Pedigree

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