The two TV programs, "Missing
Identity" dealt with the subject of children survivors. These children,
born approximately during the years 1935-1945, are looking for information and
persons connected with their past.
After the two programs, we received many letters, mostly from Israel.
Many of these letters concern children lost during Holocaust. Did they
survive? What happened to them?
It is so difficult to grasp the every day lives of those who wrote us,
52 years after the end of the war. Among them were: Mothers and fathers
searching for their little children.
Brothers and sisters still hoping to find their siblings.
Children born AFTER the Holocaust trying to find out what happened to the
children born to their parents BEFORE the Holocaust. These children might,
at least in theory, be children with missing identities.
Here is the list of names and details about children who disappeared during
the Holocaust. These children were born approximately during the years 1930 and 1945,
with some exceptions.
Some of these children also appear a second time as part of their whole
family in our list of families and grownups.
Family names are listed alphabetically in
red.
At the bottom of each message next to the filenumber you will find
EMAIL.
By clicking it you will be able to send an email concerning the children listed here. ONLY emails with a referring filenumber will be send to our researchers.
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Click here for family names beginning with the letters:
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ABBE—two
children born in the 1930's—Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland
- Father: Abraham Abbe—born 1911
- Mother: Unknown
- The family lived in Tomaszow Mazowiecki.
Submitted by Mendel Max Abbe; uncle
Submitted by Israel Aviel; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1101
AGINES, Chana—born
1930, Bokani, Moldowa
AGINES, Israel—born 1932, Bokani, Moldova
AGINES, Zvi—born 1934, Bokani, Moldova
AGINES, Rachel—born 1936, Bokani, Moldova
AGINES, Malka—born 1937/1938, Bokani, Moldova
AGINES, Mania—born 1926 Bokani, Moldova
AGINES, Shlomo—born 1928 Bokani, Moldova
- Father: Reuven Agines
- Mother: Dora Agines
- The family lived in Bokani in the area of
Palshti, Moldova.
- In the beginning of the war the family fled
in the direction of Kishkarne.
- Last seen in 1941.
Submitted by Rosa Berletski nee Agines; sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1072
AJSYKOWICZ, Ester
Malka—born 1927, in Warsaw, Poland
- Father: Abraham Ajsykowicz
- Mother: Chana Riwka Ajsykowicz
- Brother: Chaim Szlomo Ajsykowicz—born 1922,
in Warsaw
- Brother: Yeshayahu Shalom Ajsykowiec—born
1924,, Warsaw
- The family lived in Falencia near Warsaw before
the war.
- During the war the father died of hunger,
and is buried in Pruszkow near Warsaw. The mother and two of her children
stayed in Falencia near Warsaw.
Submitted by Aviva Perlman nee Ajsykowicz;
sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1082
ALTMAN, Tibor—born
ca 1928, Kosice, Slovakia
- Father: Edward Altman
- Mother: Hermina Altman nee Bial
- Deported with family to Auschwitz in 1944.
Submitted by Rachel Hertz nee Bial; aunt
Filenumber: 1077
APPELBAUM, Channa—born
1937-1941, Lodz, Poland
- Father: Samuel Appelbaum—born ca 1915
- Mother (?)
- The family lived in Lodz, Poland.
Submitted by Lea Katz nee Golbas; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1026
AUERBACH, Jakob
Ikubek—born 1926, Warsaw, Poland
AUERBACH, Rachel—born 1930
AUERBACH, Masha Brendel—born 1937
- Father: Meshulam Auerbach
- Mother: Ester Auerbach nee Zilbernadel
- The family lived in Warsaw, Poland.
Submitted by Miriam Tugendhaft nee Auerbach;
aunt
EMAIL Filenumber: 1044
AUERBACH, Ester—born
17 Nov 1937, Lodz, Poland
- Father: Moshe Auerbach
- Mother: Sara Auerbach nee Tenenbaum
- The family lived in Lodz before the war.
- During the war the family moved to Warsaw
to be with other relatives, and here they lived in Ghetto Warsaw.
Submitted by Miriam Tugendhaft nee Auerbach;
aunt
EMAIL Filenumber:1044
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BACHNER
Abraham—born 1930, Chrzanow, Poland
BACHNER, Sandel—born 1932, Chrzanow
BACHNER, Scheindele—born 1928, Chrzanow
- Father: Moshe Bachner or Fauler>
- Mother: Chana Bachner
- The family lived in ul. Garcarska in Chrzanow,
Poland
Submitted by Rachel Bachner; sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1089
BARASHNIKOFF/LEWIN Feige—born
ca 1937-1938, Russia
- Father: Gottlieb Barashnikoff
- Mother: Mania Lewin married Barashnikoff
- The parents moved from Vilnius to Russia around
1937 and their daughter Feige was born there.
- As far as the family knows, the parents were
taken away, separated. Feige was given to Gottlieb Barishnikoff's brother
and he later put her in an orphanage, somewhere in Russia.
Submitted by Shaul Zur; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber:1049
BIAL Latchi born
ca 1929/1930, Kosice, Slovakia
- Father: Henryk Bial
- Mother: Lea Bial nee Stiglitz
- Last seen together with his father on the
death march from Auschwitz in 1945.
Submitted by Rachel Hertz nee Bial; aunt
EMAIL filenumber:1077
BIELENA Zuzi—born
12 Dec 1939, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Father: Aharon Beilis
- Mother: Bronia Bielena nee Stern
- Taken by force from her mother's arms in Ghetto
Kovno.
From Dalia Gal; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1040
BLASZ, Ryzcard—born
ca 1935, Wloclawek, Poland
- Father: Eugene Blasz
- Mother: Anna Blasz
- Before the war the family lived in Wloclawek.
During the war, Ryzcard was with family in the Zamosc area.
Submitted by Tami Lavi; sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1103
BLUMENKOPF, Rysia
Ryszarda—born 1934-1935, Warsaw, Poland
BLUMENKOPF, Samek—born ca 1937, Warsaw, Poland
- Father: Hirsz Blumenkopf
- Mother: Pola Blumenkopf nee Kaferman
Submitted by Batia Kafri; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber:1114
BOITEL, Zila—born
30 Oct 1940, Podhize near Ternopol, Ukraine
- Father: Joachim Boitel
- Mother: Malvina Maria Miriam Boitel nee Leiter
- In July/ August 1941 the mother was told that
her daughter was in a Children's Hospital in Poltava, Ukraine.
Submitted by Miriam Boitel; mother
EMAIL Filenumber: 1008
BORDA/BARDA, Rina/Rena—born
ca 1930-1932, Grodno, Lithuania
BORDA/BARDA, Ari—born ca 1930-1932, Grodno
- Father: Aharon Borda/ Barda
- Mother: Golda Borda/Barda nee Chirug
- The children lived with their parents in Grodno,
Lithuania.
Submitted by Rina Chirurg; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber:1075
BRANDSZTETTER—two
small children born in the 1930's in Oswiecim, Poland
- Father: Oskar Brandsztetter
- The family lived in Sosnowiec.
Submitted by Gina Rossbach; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber:1098
BUDNIK, Moszele Moniek—born ca 1936 in Warsaw,Poland
- Father: Yitzchak Budnik in Mexico during the war
- Mother: Krusa Karola Budnik nee Goldberg
- The family lived in ul. Panska 9, in Warsaw.
Submitted by Sara Artzi Goldberg; aunt.
EMAIL Filenumber: 1045
BURKO, Matti—born 1941, Vladimirets, Ukraine
- Father: Mendel Burko
- Mother: Golda Burko
- The family lived in Vladimirets.
- In September 1942, during the German occupation, Matti was left at the
door of a man called Ivan, also known as " the American," as
he was the first man of the town to visit America. A couple of months later,
Mendel Burko visited Ivan, who told him he had handed Matti over to the
Germans. This has never been confirmed. Ivan lived in a farm outside the
town, about a mile from the town, and had no neighbors. He was considered
a wealthy man. Matti was ten months at the time. The Burko family was a
Jewish family who lived in the main street of Vladimirets, and owned a
large store for fabrics.
Submitted by Nurit Ronen; relative
EMAIL Filenumber: 1064
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CEDERBAUM, Sara
Bluma Sarutka—born 1930, Lodz, Poland
After the war used the name Stefa
Cedelska
- Father: Salomon Cederbaum
- Mother: Estera Pesa Cederbaum
- The family lived in Lodz.
- Sara was brought with her family to ul. Lutomskienska 86
in The Lodz Ghetto. After the war she might have been transferred to Danzig.
Her brother Joseph visited Auschwitz a year ago and there he he saw a photo
taken at the liberation of Auschwitz. He and his family are quite certain
they recognize Sarutka on the picture. In addition to this, a former neighbor
in Lodz, Mrs Penkalska, wrote to Joseph after the war that Sarutka had
survived. Further searches at the time were futile. Now the whole family
is working hard to trace the whereabouts of Sarutka. Can you help?
Submitted by Joseph Cederbaum;brother
Submitted by Rachel Vogel; niece
EMAIL Filenumber:1083
CHEFETZ, Magani—born
in July 1934 in Magnitogorsk in Siberia, Russia
- Father: Menachem Chefetz
- Mother: Pola Chefetz nee Kronik
- The parents were teachers and were probably
executed in 1938.
- Magani was perhaps given up for adoption, and put in
orphanage.
Submitted by Miryam Mira Klotz nee Chefetz; aunt
Submitted by Hasia Klotz ; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1059
CHIRUG, Zila Zili born Sept 9th 1941 in The Lodz Ghetto,
Poland.
CHIRUG, Ruti—born 21 April 1937, Lodz
- Father: Samuel Chirug
- Mother: Rebecka Chirug
- The family lived in ul. Szrudmielsko 69, in the Lodz Ghetto.
- From there they were brought to Stutthof on Sept. 3rd 1944 through Auschwitz.
From Stutthof the mother and her two daughters were sent back to Auschwitz
on Sept. 10th 1944. During a visit to the Stutthof Archives, an index card with Zila's
name on it gave the family a tiny hope that Zila perhaps survived.
Submitted by Rina Chirurg;sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1075
CHOROSOV, Rachel—born ca 1939/1940,
probably in Gorki or Grodno , Belarus
- Father: Jakob Chorosov
- Mother: Sofia Nechama Chorosov
- The family lived in Belarus; probably in either Gorki
or Grodno.
- In 1940 baby Rachel, very thin at the time, was placed in a
children's home run by nuns in Mogialev Street in one of the places mentioned
above.
Submitted by Chana Melul nee Chorosov; sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1047
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DAVID, Miriam—born
ca 1939, Hodorov, Poland
- Father: Shmuel David
- Mother: Pola David
- Given ca 1942 to a Polish woman named Piacezki.
Submitted by Jehudith Sandel; cousin's wife
E-mail: yadtab@actcom.co.il
EMAIL Filenumber: 1120
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EINNIS, Erena or Erka—born 1934,
Bolekhov near Krekhovichi, Ukraine.
- Father: Baruch " Butchee" Einnis
- Mother: Fani Einnis
- The family was taken from Bolekhov to Ghetto Dolina.
- Erena was probably taken away from her parents by a Polish a Polish
woman named Maria. Did Erena survive?
Submitted by Adella Schwartzenberg nee Landver; aunt
EMAIL Filenumber: 1032
ELSTER or ERSTER, Sara born 1930's—Sokolow Podalski, Poland
- Father: Chajm Srul Elster
- Mother: Cywia Elster nee Szczerb
- Her brother
and sister hope Sara survived as a hidden child.
Submitted by Marla Cohen; niece
EMAIL Filenumber: 1092
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FICHMAN, Lusia—born 1936 Borislav, Ukraine
- Father: David Dudek Fichman
born 1906
- Mother: Ita Fichman born 1908
- The family lived in Borislav.
- The
father worked in a refinery, also during the war, and survived. The family
had a baby boy named Emanuel on Oct 25th 1941. When the mother and her
two children were taken away in 1942, the mother managed to give her baby
son to a Polish family and to send a note her husband. The father found
the son after the war. Did Lusia also survive?
Submitted by Teddy Emanuel Fichman; brother
EMAIL Filenumber: 1022
FRENKEL—two children—born in the 1930's in Krakow, Poland
- Father: Moshe Frenkel
- Mother: Rivka Frenkel nee Abbe
- The family lived in
Krakow.
Submitted by Mendel Max Abbe; uncle From Israel
Submitted by Aviel; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1101
FREUNDREICH,
Paula—born ca 1930, Danzig/Gdansk, Poland
FREUNDREICH, Hedwig—born ca 1931,
Danzig/Gdansk, Poland
- Father: Dedier Freundreich
- Mother: Shewa Freundreich
- In 1938 these two sisters were part of a group of 50 school children who
were brought from Danzig to the States through the Joint.
- Their nieces, daughters of their sister Chana, would like to find their two aunts.
Submitted by Pnina Ampel and Dina Herman; nieces
EMAIL Filenumber: 1081
FRIEDMAN, Shuni—born ca 1922,
Stara Lubovna, Slovakia
FRIEDMAN, Gitel—born ca 1924
FRIEDMAN, Malka—born
ca 1926
FRIEDMAN, (boy)—born ca 1928
FRIEDMAN, (boy)—born ca 1930
FRIEDMAN,
(boy)—born ca 1932
- Father: Shapse Friedman
- Mother: Krindel Friedman
- In 1939 the family lived in Stara Lubovna or in Lubela, Slovakia.
Submitted by Dvora Shidletski; aunt
EMAIL Filenumber: 1009
FUCHS (baby girl)—Czestochowa (?), Poland
- Father: Josef Fuchs
- Mother: Etka Fuchs nee Altmann
- The family lived in
Czestochowa and where later transferred to the Lodz Ghetto.
- The little
girl was given at the beginning of the war to a monastery in the area.
The mother assumedly left a sign (scar?) on her buttock.
Submitted by Jochevet Fuchs; sister
E-mail:hakerem@netvision.net.il
EMAIL Filenumber: 1121
FURMAN, Leib Leon—born
ca 1932, Chortkow, Ukraine
FURMAN, Abraham Bomek—born ca 1934, Chortkow,
Ukraine
- Father: Aahron Furman
- Mother: Jehudit Furman nee Bergenfeld
- When the war broke out these two boys were at a summer camp in Marianopol, Ukraine.
Submitted by Frieda Brenner nee Furman; sister
EMAILFilenumber 1024
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GELBIER, Halina—born 1938
in Krakow, Poland
- Father: Aron Gelbier
- Mother: Rozali Gelbier nee Fortgang
- The mother and her daughter fled eastwards by train together with sister in law
and her daughter. When the niece died, the two women buried her and
the train left with little Halina on board!
- Later the mother found that
Halina stayed in an orphanage in Pachte Arl Tashkent till Mrs. Stachnova
took her from there in 1941. According to a certificate issued by the Polish
authorities in 1953, Halina died of typhus in 1944. Is this true?
Submitted by Rozalia Balin; mother
Submitted by Uri Stefan; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1060
GILIGICH (?) (Boy)—born
Vilnius, Lithuania
- Mother: Chana nee Giligich
- Father's name unknown
- Supposedly
escaped the Vilna Ghetto alive and perhaps emigrated to Israel after the
war.
Submitted by Charlotte Aisuss Showel; relative
EMAIL Filenumber: 1021
GLASMAN, (baby boy)—born
ca 1942, Ghetto Warsaw, Poland
- Father: Hertz Glasman
- Mother: Mania Glasman nee Hoffenblum
- When the baby was born, his Uncle Chaim Hoffenblum placed
him at the home of Mrs. Helena Baslikewitz who lived right outside the
ghetto.
- After the war Mrs. Baslikewitz claimed the boy had died of malnutrition.
Submitted by: Kalman Teigmann; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1080
GOLBAS, Sibik—born ca 1930, Lodz, Poland
GOLBAS, Aharon—born ca 1933, Lodz, Poland
- Father: Abraham Moshe Golbas
- Mother: Lea Golbas
- The family lived in Lodz before the war.
- The father
survived the war. What happened to the two children and their mother?
Submitted by Lea Katz nee Golbas; half sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1026
GOLDBERG, Rosa—born 1933,
Konskie, Poland
- Father: Zelig Goldberg
- Mother Ester Goldberg nee Bok
- The family lived in Konskie.
- When the mother and her daughter were deported
in 1943, the mother told Rosa to escape to Stary Koziniza (?), the village
the mother came from.
Submitted by Chil Goldberg; brother
EMAIL Filenumber: 1043
GOLDMAN, Kopel
(Karol)—born June 28th 1930, Bedzin, Poland
- Father: Avraham Gutbecalt
- Mother Hinda Goldman
- Kopel was last seen in the Bedzin Ghetto in 1942.
Submitted by Sofia Morali nee Gutbecalt ; sister
EMAIL Filenumber 1068
GOLDSTEIN, Jehudit Gittel—born 1937-1941,
Rezin Pudlavki near Lublin, Poland
- Father: Jakob Goldstein
- Mother: Luba
Goldstein nee Appelbaum
- Did Jehudit and her parents survive?
Submitted by Lea Katz
nee Golbas; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1026
GONGOLIVICH or LICHTMAN, (baby girl)—born ca
1943-1945, Ukraine
- Mother: Rachel Lichtman or Gongolivich from Zobovnow (?)
- The mother was separated from her husband and daughter during the war.
After the war she married again, and now her children from this second
marriage would like to find their half sister.
Submitted by Matthias and Catherine
Gould;
E-mail:CatherineGould@Worldnet.att.net
EMAIL Filenumber 1122
GOSTYNSKI, Dan—born
ca 1937, Lodz, Poland
- Father: Szymon Gostynski—born 1904
- Mother: Magda
Gostynski
- The family together with a 15-year-old relative managed to escape
from The Lodz Ghetto in 1943 and fled to the vicinity of Sandomierz.
- Here Dan was given to a Polish farmer who lived in the first village on
the right hand when you go from Zawichost to Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski in a distance of 2-3 miles from Zawichost..
Submitted by Leon Gostynski; uncle
EMAIL Filenumber: 1027
GOTLIEB, Feigele—born 1931, ÄTomaszow Lubelski, Poland
- Father Natan Gotlieb originally from Lvov, Ukraine
- Mother Golda Gotlieb—died when
her daughter was one year old
- Feigele grew up in her aunt's home (Tova
Sheindel and Jakob Winder) in Tomaszow Lubelski.
- When the war broke out,
her father Nathan Gotlieb brought her to his home in Lvov when the Winder
family was sent to Siberia.
Submitted by Zahava Shwager nee Winder; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1018
GOTTESMAN, Josef or Jacob or Elijahu—born ca 1939/1940
- Father: Yitzchak
Gottesman
- Mother: Rachel Gottesman—murdered in 1946
- The family lived in
the Carpathian Mountains in what was then Hungary. The mother and son were
deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
- The son got one of the following numbers
in Auschwitz: A 7733, A 7734, A 7735
Submitted by Arie Kleinman; cousin
EMAIL Filenumber: 1114
GRENISYTE,
Matle—born 7 Jan 1946, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Mother: Genia Gordon
- What happened
to Matle?
- Her twin sister, who lately has found out about her existence,
would like to get in contact with her.
Submitted by Roza Grenesyte; twin and sister
EMAIL Filenumber: 1052
GRINBERG, Marysia—born ca 1935, Warsaw, Poland
- Father: David Grinberg
- Mother: Jadzia Grinberg nee Goldberg
- The parents had a small business making
chocolate and sweets in ul. Bonifraterska, in Warsaw.
Submitted by Sara Artzi Goldberg;
aunt
EMAIL Filenumber: 1045
GRINSPAN, Reuven—born 1927, Lodz, Poland
GRINSPAN, Arie Leib
or Avraham Leib—born 1924, Lodz, Poland
- Father: Josef Grinspan
- Mother: Zila Grinspan nee Liss
- The family lived in ul. Franciszkanska 30, Lodz
till they were transferred to the Lodz Ghetto to ul. Bazancia 5.
- The family was in the ghetto until 1944. The mother and Reuven were sent to Auschwitz,
later also the rest of the family. Their brother, Yitzchak—born 1931, Lodz,
thinks he is the only survivor, but perhaps..
Submitted by Yitzchak Grinspan;
brother
EMAIL Filenumber: 1028
GRINSTEIN/GRINSZTAJN, Areck, Arye born 1927, Lodz, Poland
- Father: Israel Wolf Grinstein
- Mother: Andja Hana Grinstein nee Kopel
- The family lived in ul. Pulnacna 5 in Lodz
Submitted by Moshe Grinstein;
brother
EMAIL Filenumber: 1131
GROB, Leon—born and lived in Bielsko Biala, Poland
GROB, Gina—born and lived in Bielsko Biala
GROB, Zelma—born and lived in Bielsko
Biala
- These three brothers and sisters lived with their parents in Bielsko-Biala.
- Unfortunately their cousin has forgotten the parents' name.
Submitted by Gina Rossbach;
cousin
EMAIL Filenumber:1098
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HALLER/GALLER, Avraham—born ca 1935 Storozhinets, Ukraine
Father: Markus Mordechai Haller
- Mother: Malli Miriam Haller
- Last seen in
1941 when he was with two women from the Ivanir family.
Submitted by David Dutziu
Haller; brother