Lonia goldman fishman biography of alberta
Support of Basic Research in Sharon Tash, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project, conducted the interview with Lonia Fishman in Malden, MA on March 29,
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LONIA GOLDMAN FISHMAN. March 29, Malden, Massachusetts [After Mr. Fishman interjected, the remainder of the interview was conducted with him.] We're speaking with Mrs. Lonia Fishman and the date is March 29, We're in Malden, Massachusetts. Mrs. Fishman can you tell us about yourself, what was your name before you were married?.Goldman, Louis (Sarah), men's furngs Lonia Goldman Fishman was born in in Poland to a strictly orthodox Jewish family. She attended religious school and learned knitting and quilt making. At the start of World War II, she and her family were trapped in the Warsaw ghetto.
GOLDMAN, Jeanine M., 47 Lonia Goldman Fishman lived in Wegrow, Poland and attended Beis Yakov school. During the Holocaust, she was married to Sevek Fishman in the Warsaw Ghetto. In a quote, Lonia describes how with her bloody fingernails, she and others dug a cellar grave lined with straw where they lay motionless and concealed for 18 months to hide from danger. Read.