Zelda Metz-Kelbermann
Zelda Metz-Kelbermann , (born May 1, 1925 in Siedliszcze , Poland as Zelda Metz ; † 1980 in the USA ) arrived on December 20, 1942 with her cousins Regina Feldmann-Zieliuska and Estera Raab on a horse transport with another 800 Jewish people Sobibór extermination camp . She was one of the few surviving women in this extermination camp.
Camp and escape
She was selected to work in the knitting room of the warehouse where socks were made. She then went to the barracks to iron laundry. There she had to sort the laundry of the murdered people from the gas chambers. In the summer of 1943 she had to help with the construction of Camp 4.
She fled with Estera Raab and Hella Felenbaum-Weiss during the Sobibór uprising .
After the uprising and the flight, she worked in Lviv until the end of the Second World War , where she took the name Janina until she emigrated to the USA in 1946 .
literature
- Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Unrast-Verlag , Hamburg / Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-814-6
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metz-Kelbermann, Zelda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Metz, Zelda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siedliszcze , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |
| Place of death | United States of America |