Estera Raab

Estera Raab , née Terner (born June 11, 1922 in Chełm , Poland ; † April 13, 2015 in Vineland , New Jersey ), came to the Sobibór extermination camp on December 20, 1942 with a horse transport and another 800 Jewish people . She is one of the few surviving women in this extermination camp.

Camp and escape

Raab was chosen to work in the knitting room of the camp with seven other young women. Then she was used in the laundry sorting barrack. There she had to sort the murdered people's laundry from the gas chambers and also worked in the knitting room.

From a barrack near the ramp on which the transport trains with the Jews arrived, she saw Karl Frenzel , the commandant of Camp I, smack a small child's head on the wagons.

She was injured during the Sobibór uprising , but was able to flee with Hella Felenbaum-Weiss and Zelda Metz-Kelbermann .

Next life

Raab and the former camp inmate Samuel Lerer recognized SS-Oberscharführer Erich Hermann Bauer on the street in West Berlin in 1949 , whereupon he was arrested. She later emigrated to the USA .

Surviving women

Only 47 people survived the Sobibor extermination camp. Among the survivors at the end of World War II were the women:

Hella Felenbaum-Weiss
Eda Lichtman (née Fischer)
Ursula Stern (married Ilona Safran)
Selma Wijnberg (married Engel)
Regina Zielinski (née Feldman)
Zelda Metz-Kelbermann (née Metz)

literature

Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Unrast, Hamburg, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-814-6 .

Individual evidence

^ Name after Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp. P. 273 ff. (See literature)

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personal data
SURNAME	Raab, Estera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Terner, Estera (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chełm , Poland
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 2015
Place of death	Vineland , New Jersey

[1] Name after Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp. P. 273 ff. (See literature)