Chaya Messer Feliks in Zbaszyn, Poland in 1939. Like other Jews in Germany who were of Polish nationality, Chaya was expelled from Germany to the border town of Zbaszyn in October 1938. She got three of her four children to safety, but Chaya and her youngest son perished in the Holocaust.
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  • 30 points Prize-Friendship-788

    Rest in peace.

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  • 27 points RighteousAudacity

    May her and her child's memory be a blessing.

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  • 35 points CatPooedInMyShoe

    Source of the photo is this memoir by Chaya’s daughter Thea, available to read for free on PDF at the link. Thea got sent to the UK on a Kindertransport in August 1939; her transport was the last one out before the war began and the Kindertransports stopped.

    More info about Zbaszyn. The Germans expelled these “Polish” Jews (many of whom had been born in Germany or had lived there for decades) and forced them over the border, but Poland refused to accept them and so they were stuck in this border area. Thea says in her book that they had to sleep in horse stalls and the like. A lot of people died due to the poor conditions. Chaya, as a widow with four kids to look after, must have had a very hard time. She was ultimately able to send three of them away to safety, but not her youngest son Leopold who shared her fate.

    The family of Herschel Grynszpan were among those expelled. Herschel was in Paris at the time. When he found out, he killed a German diplomat. The Nazis used this as an excuse to start Kristallnacht.

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  • 7 points cryerin25

    may her memory be a blessing

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  • 4 points nunzillabreathesfire

    NEVER forget.

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  • -60 points ScrnNmsSuck

    No..... she's digging a tunnel under her castle in Ohio, I think.. Kala or engineer everything was the video

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    29 points Land-Hippo

    .... Huh?

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    24 points CatPooedInMyShoe

    r/LostRedditors

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