Hilde Sherman

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Hilde Sherman , née Hilde Zander , (born March 22, 1923 in Wanlo ; † March 11, 2011 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Colombian Jew who survived the Holocaust as the only member of her family after being deported to the Riga ghetto . In 1945 she emigrated to Colombia .

Life

Hilde Zander was the daughter of Albert Zander (* July 10th, 1894) and Paula Wiesenfelder (* October 7th, 1891) , she was born in Wanlo in 1923 in the house of her grandparents Joseph Zander (1866–1930) and Henriette Kahn (* September 17, 1864, † April 2nd, 1943 in Theresienstadt) . Later, the parents and their daughter Hilde moved to the neighboring Wickrathberg , now a district of Mönchengladbach . Her siblings were Herbert (* October 18, 1924) and Ruth (* May 8, 1927) . On December 6, 1941, she married Kurt Winter from Korschenbroich .

A few days later on December 10, 1941, the couple were deported from the Düsseldorf slaughterhouse and cattle yard in the Derendorf district of Düsseldorf on a train to Latvia to the Riga ghetto . She was the only one in her family to survive the Holocaust . Her parents and two siblings were deported from Düsseldorf to the Izbica ghetto on April 22, 1942 , and they were probably murdered in the Belzec or Sobibor extermination camps . Her husband was deported from the Riga ghetto to the nearby Salaspils camp on December 22, 1941 , where he died on April 27.

In October 1944 she and other inmates were deported to Libau by ship and from there on February 19, 1945 to Hamburg . Here the group was transferred to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , which was located in the Fuhlsbüttel prison . On April 14th, the SS drove the inmates on a death march to Kiel , where they arrived on April 17th in the Nordmark labor education camp in Kiel-Hassee . On May 1, 1945 Hilde Sherman belonged to a group of Danes with thermoses , which the Red Cross signs , taken from the camp and had to Copenhagen was brought. It was the rescue operation of the White Buses carried out by the Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte . The German Jews were referred to as Polish forced laborers during the action . The liberated concentration camp prisoners were brought to Malmö in Sweden on the Gripsholm ship .

She emigrated to Cali in Colombia on November 27, 1945 , as some relatives were already living here. She had met the Latvian Jew Willy Sherman in the Riga ghetto. He had also survived. After the war he lived first in Munich, later in Paris. Years later he managed to enter Colombia, where he married Hilde in Cali. The family later moved to Bogotá . The couple had two daughters. In 1995 the couple moved to Israel.

In the 1970s, Hilde Sherman came to Germany twice to testify as a witness in criminal trials in Hamburg, where she also visited Mönchengladbach. In 1982 she published her book in Colombia. The German version Between Day and Dark. Girl Years in the Ghetto was published in 1984 by Ullstein Verlag . Inspired by the book, citizens from Mönchengladbach contacted Hilde Sherman, including Helga Stöver . A deep friendship developed between the two women. On September 4, 2009, four stumbling blocks for their parents and siblings were laid in front of the family's former home in Wickrathberg, Berger Dorfstrasse 27 .

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  1. ↑ Stumbling blocks remind of victims of the Nazi era . City of Mönchengladbach. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Sherman, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zander, Hilde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Colombian Jew, Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanlo
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2011
Place of death Jerusalem