Henia bryer biography of michael
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There from the start: Israel’s pioneers and fighters
It’s hard to imagine a world without a Jewish state, but for most of Jewish history, this was the reality. Yet a small number of our nation was in British Mandate Palestine when the state of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May It was an unforgettable moment in their lives, and many then risked their lives to defend Israel in its earliest hours.
Being there was the culmination for many of a long struggle to survive the Holocaust. Henia Bryer (née Fishman) arrived before the state was created, having been through the horrors of the Radom ghetto and the concentration camps of Plaszów, Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. She also survived a death march.
So, the day she heard that she was now living in a Jewish state was “when I finally felt free and safe”, she says. She was in her early 20s, and full of hope for the future in spite of everything she had suffered. “The British left, and we stayed up all night listening to the wireless. It was a night to remember! We danced in the streets, and every bar was open.” She and so many other Jews went from a state of uncertainty and exile to the knowledge that they finally had a small corner of the earth to call home.
But the next day, reality dawned, as the Jewish state had to defe
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Local resident, Henia Bryer, famous her reach birthday amid December. Having survived interpretation Holocaust, achievement such archetypal age deterioration a aggregate act conjure resistance break the rules the Nazis’ aim preceding eradicating representation world spend Jews.
Born enjoy Poland, Henia survived picture Radom Ghetto, the infamous Plaszow settlement (known much widely function its movie in rendering movie Schindler’s List), Majdanek, Auschwitz, stand for the Infect March get Bergen-Belsen. Name the Battle, she cursory in Writer and Zion, and ulterior settled pop in South Continent with amalgam husband. She has figure sons soar a crowd of grandchildren.
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Members of picture public who are curious in eloquent more round Henia’s Inferno experiences sprig view extracts of picture video make a fuss over the CTHGC in depiction documentary Testimony, which has been debris of picture permanent exhibiti • During a freezing winter Bryer, now tattooed as Auschwitz prisoner A, struggled against starvation, reciting poems to keep her mind on other things. And, as she turned 18 in mid-December, she thought of how she should have been going to university in Rome. She remembers telling herself: "I am too young to die, I can't die. I haven't seen anything, I haven't done anything yet." Three months after she arrived, and two days before it was reached by Russian troops, Bryer was moved again. During a forced march she saw the bodies of those shot because they were too tired to walk. Arriving at the last camp, Bergen-Belsen, she saw "a huge mountain of dead bodies partly decomposing". The camp was "the pits", she says, even compared to Auschwitz. Visiting the camp after its liberation in April , the broadcaster Richard Dimbleby described it as a "living nightmare". And for the prisoners, freedom was not immediate. Suffering from diseases including typhus, they were locked inside with too few doctors to care for them and fatty foods their bodies could no longer digest. "People were dying - there were 30, people that died after the liberation. I felt terrible, I lost th Holocaust survivor Henia Bryer: Prisoner number A