2008-06-24T23:32:00.000-07:00

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Moran Salomon and Bar Hanuka
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Survivor:

Code: RelatioNet RO HA 31 CE CZ
Family Name: Rozanski
First Name:Hnna
Father Name: Leophold
Mother Name: Renna Link
Birth Date: 1931
Town In Holocaust: Ceska Teshin
Country In Holocaust: Czech Republic

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Hanna was born at 1931 in a small city called Ceska Teshin between the Czech Republic and Poland. She had a brother named Dannek, who was 7 years older then her. Dannek moved to Czech and became a member in a youth movement, which opposed to the conquest of Czech Republic by the polish, who had brought in the anti-Semitism. Hanna had always known that she was Jewish but at that time she began to feel different than others.
Before the war began Hanna's family left Teshin because the fear from Germans to find a shelter in her mother's parents home in Bauhinia, with her brother. A short time later the Germans conquered Poland on September 1939.

At that September Hanna entered into a Polish school. She was one of the only four Jewish kids in the second grade. One day Germans came in to the classroom and told the teacher to kick out the Jewish students from school for good. As it happened Hanna was so humiliated by the glow of her peers and cried to her brother Dannek, who was expelled too and promised to teach her.
During that time all kinds of band lows were published by many ads and posters, according to them Jews can't swim in the lake, visit in entertainment places and also public transportation.
Germans began to randomly catch Jews and abuse them, occluding Hanna's grandfather who cut his beard on his own because Germans were cutting Jews beards, sometimes with their skin.
According to Hanna, the most terrifying thing of it all was the fear of the unknown and the feeling that something bad is going to happen. At that time, Hanna says, all she felt was the desire to live.
At 1941 the Germans put ghettos in the cities and Hanna's family was forced to leave their homes with minimum things and was put in ghetto Bauhinia, a place of Polish population who were evacuated and got the Jews homes instead.
In the Ghetto Hanna's family got a furnished room with a kitchen, and contained six lives.
Hanna's father and grandfather were sent to chop woods, and the rest were selling some of the few food that was in the ghetto and worth wile things they were owned.
Because that ghetto Bauhinia was not surrounded by walls there was access between the Jews and the Polish and some good Polish women were throwing bread to the ghetto.
That brought to the idea of saving Hanna by pretending to be a daughter of a Christine woman Hanna's grandmother knew, who had a daughter in the same age of Hanna, 11, how had died, and she agreed to adopt Hanna for payment.
Hanna's had been died, but instead of becoming blond it had a red color. Hanna was even thought Christine prays and wore a cross. One day when there was no guarding Hanna was smuggled out of the ghetto with the help of her mother. On the outside a woman waited and told her that from now own her name is "Marishia" and she is her aunt, bringing her to mother. As the walked into the train station Hanna saw some S.S mans laughing out loud, surrounded by polish how adored them. She realized that she can't leave among them and decided to come back to the ghetto to her parents, thinking that dying with her family in the ghetto is better than living with the Polish.
Hanna waited to the woman to look aside a like a caught animal slowly walk out from the station to not get noticed and began running as she came near to the ghetto.
As she came in to her House everyone was crying because she left, and asked her why she came back after noticing her. They just hugged and kissed her without saying any other word and Hanna said, “I just want to die with you” and stayed.
At that time rumors were coming about killings and a silent fear from determination has been built.
At the end of August 1942 there was an announcement in the ghetto that all of the young people must attend in Kesrektine for work. The intention was to get all of the young people who could rebel or fight out of the ghetto and leave just kids and elders. At the same day it was also announced that the older people must be there too so they could be transferred to בית אבות.
At the night before the eviction Hanna’s mother was making bread with gold jewelers inside for Hanna’s brother Dannek, who was supposed to be sent to the work camp the day after. Suddenly three drunks Nazis came in. Hanna’s mother stood in front of the bread to hide it, because if they saw it they would have shot all of Hanna’s family. The Nazis shoved Hanna’s mother. One of them threw the bread out of the window and they dropped everything that was on the table with their guns. As soon as Hanna mother was pushed Hanna screamed and one of the Nazis grabbed her and threw her on a big mirror. The mirror broke into pieces and everyone silently stood in shock until the Germans left. Than Hanna’s family found the bread outside.
The following morning Hanna’s family walked her brother to the dismissal place. A lot of happy young people were gathered there, thinking they are going to work. Hanna’s brother said to her, “I’m leaving to a work camp. I’ll get through the war and get to Palestine. I will get married and if I will have a girl I will call her after your name, Hanna. You stay with mom! Whatever will be- always stay together. It will be easier for you”. They said goodbye and Hanna has never seen her brother since then.
At the same day Hanna’s brother was taken her grandparents were taken too. After they left shots were heard. Hanna’s mother screamed “they might be killed!” not knowing whether it’s her son or her parents. Other people were calming her saying that the Germans may be killing polish Partisans.
Those shots made the Ghetto people get into an awful stress. A few days later they found out from the Polish that the elders were taken to a clearing forest near Bachkove and were forced to dig holes, take their clothes off and put them in a pile, lie in them and than got shot. The polish people said that no all of the Jews was killed while covering the hole.
Few days later Hanna’s mother came in the house crying. She found a note that was thrown into the ghetto by a polish driver who led the train Hanna’s brother was taken by. In the note a massage was written “ Jews be careful! Escape! I brought another transport of Jews form the ghetto to a little place called Belzez. Where do all of those Jews disappear? I found out that they are being determining (מושמדים) by gas and נשרפים. It was New Year eve 1942. In one of the apartments with a group of Jews praying Hanna’s mother read the note and the response was “that woman is crazy! Because of the separation from her son she is making up horrors the devil didn’t create”. At that time Hanna took a vow that of she will get out of this hell and get to Israel she will get married and have a kid named after her brother Dannek. (And so it was, Hanna’s oldest son is named Danny).
Slowly rumors were being expanding and people started to believe. There were dilutions in the ghetto in order to minimize and destroy it. People were sent to determination camps and those who stayed in the ghetto worked in all sorts of jobs. Hanna worked in one of the workshop that opened outside of the ghetto for the Germans. She was knitting wool socks and when she found it difficult the other girls helped her.
One morning they were lined into five with Germans soldiers pointing guns at them behind. In front of them stood S.S. officers with white gloves on their hands. Glowing from clearness, and shining boots that draw Hanna’s attention. She felt her worthless comparing to them, her dirt and torn clothes. She was sure that they are going to be shot. Hanna torn the tissue she held to little pieces from fear. It was a selection. Two S.S men stood in front of them and the women in lines walked between them. The S.S men pointed with their white gloves to left and write. Hanna immediately noticed that the young and the healthy stood in the right and the old and weakened in the left. One of the officers directed her to the left and as she walked toward there the other one suddenly shouted “stupid cow! You were told to the write, not to the left!” She turned to the right. The people next to her told her that she was lucky and that he saved her life. Hanna stayed in the ghetto and worked in concentration of the things belonged to the Jews who were sent from the ghetto, in order to shift them to the bombed areas of Germany.
There was a lot of property left in the ghetto. The men got out the furniture from the apartments and gathered them in a designed place. The women got out the carpets and blankets and packed them in boxes. The kids who remained in the ghetto gathered tools and cutlery. Hanna and the other workers intentionally worked very slow, knowing that as long as they work they will live. In one rabbi’s עליית גג Hanna accidentally stepped on a hiding-place with hidden holly books and fell downstairs, losing her conscious. As she woke up she was on one of the young men’s back. He calmed her and put her in her bed. Hanna was lying in her bad, hidden, because if the Germans knew that she was in her bed they would have shot her. People at her work place ere covering her until her strength came back to her.
At the beginning of 1943 there was an akcia (action אקציה) to send the remaining children in the ghettos that were not qualified for work.
Hanna had two friends younger than her, who were daughters of Hanna’s parent’s friends (this family ran to Poland from the Czech Republic like Hanna’s family). These two girls were taken in that Akcia, screaming “mother, mother!” their mother started crying and ran to them. The people around her were trying to stop her but she screamed “let me die with my daughters!” the women held her, saying, “don’t go, you are still young, you can still give birth!” and her hatband yelled at her “Stand!” As she heard his voice she stood and stopped. All the kids from that Akcia were shot in the place or sent to Auschwitz. Hanna’s mother was hiding by her body the sights from Hanna.
The parents of those two girls remained alive. With the end of the war they got to Israel and had a son, although the mother couldn’t recover. She was always talking about how she abandoned her daughters, and passed away when their son was three years old.
In that Akcia Hanna’s mother put rugs in Hanna’s shirt to make her look older than 12 years old, pinched her chicks to make them red and told her to walk on her toe-fingers to make her look taller. Hanna made through this Akcia.
The ghetto was getting smaller and smaller until there was an order to destroy it. That area must had to be clean from Jews.
At the end of 1943 Hanna’s family was evicted with small group of the remaining people to Plaszow camp.
The ghetto supervisor, Miller, moved there too and had a senior job. On the way to the train station they saw all the polish people acting as usual while they were marching to their death. They arrived to Plaszow, which was a forced work camp without gas chambers. They were lead to the showers thinking it will be their end, although it wasn't. After the shower they passed over huge storerooms and got blankets. Suddenly Hanna saw her childhood blanket she brought from Czech to Poland on the top shell. Hanna felt she must get it back for a matter of life or death. She bagged from the Jewish prisoner to give her the blanket. Hanna embraced to her heart her blanket with a feeling of happiness. She felt that she was not a number anymore and she would get out of this hell.
Hanna was put in Madrich sewing workshop under the commend of the wormat instead of the S.S, which meant more tolerable conditions. Hanna's mother managed to snick in a diamond ring and let it to one of the prisoners for bread supply. One time he gave them a piece of meet and Hanna's mother cooked it in the hitting oven. Suddenly plains Allied forces bombed the camp and everyone ran away. Hanna tripped and spilled the dish on the snow before she got to taste it. She felt like it was one of her most horrible lost she never had. One day two prisoners got caught in attempt of getting away while they were working outside. They were hung out in the ordering court in front off all the other prisoners' eyes. Hanna and the others were forced to look at them. Hanna couldn't look fluttering bodies and screamed historically. Hanna felt beating down and a bottle of water she had broke. She felt like the water spilling on her was her blood and she was going to die.
Although Plaszow was not a determination camp common killings were still executed. The prisoners were digging trenches designed for killings of prisoners the Germans didn't like, mostly weak sick and caught partisans or Jews who pretended to be Irish. The Germans were bringing them to the trenches and shooting them. After that prisoners were covering the holes.
At the summer of 1944, as the Russians were coming, Hanna and the other prisoners were forced to get out the rotting bodies out of the drenches during the nights. The men brought woods, put them between the bodies and lighted them up and the ash was scattered. A "sweet" smell of burned meet ruled the camp. Jews were transported from Plaszow camp to the determination camps. Hanna and her mother were on one of those shipments intended to Auschwitz. They were lead in fives toward the train station and Hanna knew where they were heading. She had to run and her eyes were wondering all over. Hanna's mother was depressed and the desire of living was all on Hanna. They got to the station where the cattle wagons were with open doors.
As they came near to them Hanna heard one German shouting to the other "this is the last wagon!" and the other one asked, "what do we do with the rest of them?" so the first one said, "get them back to the camp". Hanna was supposed to get in to the last wagon but started to pull back her five-people line. The other women wanted to get in because they wanted to sit down. Hanna pulled them step after step with force so the guards wouldn't see until a call "back" was heard and they turned back to the back. Just after that Hanna's mother and the other three women realized what happened and kissed Hanna. After they came back to Plaszow camp it began being destroyed because of the coming of the Russians.

Oscar Schindler
At that time it was found out that one German man named Oscar Schindler, who owned an textile factory, was employing several hundreds prisoners from Plaszow camp. Chindler was pro-Jews and decided to rescue the Jews who worked in his factory and transport them to a weapon industry factory he built in Brinlinz (in Buchnia). Whoever was in Schindler's list had a chance to save his life. Hanna doesn't know how she and her mother and father got in the list. She assumes that Miller, who was the supervisor of Bucnia and moved with the prisoners to Plaszow, may got the remains of Bucnia to the list.
At the fowl of 1944 the camp was destroyed. The women sent to Auschwitz and the men to camp Grosrozen. Probably Hanna's transport was compound a named list of "Chindler women" who were supposed to get out from Auschwitz to Schindler's camp in Morbia.
When they got to Auschwitz they were taken to the showers. Each woman got soap. They already knew the meaning of showers in Auschwitz and were curtained that they were going to die. Hanna’s hear was shaved and until than she had braids. Hanna lost the rest of צלם אנוש she had left. Women who still had rings had to remove them or else their fingers would have cut off. The only things Hanna still owned and hidden for all that time were pictures of her brother, Dannek. Hanna put them in her mouth and got into the showers, waiting for the gas to spread. But it was real showers, with water flowing. As all the women got out they got wood כפכפים and striped prisoner’s clothes. They were lodged in huge blocks with wooden stool for sleeping. They were sleeping one next to each other with horrible density.
One day thirteen year old Hanna stood with the other women next to a fence of Birkenau camp, looking on the Polish prisoners in the camp next to theirs. One of then yelled to Hanna “girl, do you need anything?” Hanna answered to him “two things. I’m cold and I need a spoon”. Hanna needed a spoon for her mother who couldn’t eat her soup that was given in a bowl for six women. After a while the polish prisoner threw to her some kind of a yellow piece of material and a spoon. After this human gesture a small feeling happiness and hope got in to Hanna. She hidden this yellow rag and her mother kept the spoon in her clothes.

Mengale
On one of the selections in Auschwitz Mengale passed through the lines of women who stood in front of him on the order (\lineup). The קורמיטורים chimney output smoke. Mengalle stopped in front of each woman who seemed to him pale or wick and they got out of the line. He passed over Hanna and moved on. Hanna’s mother stood in the line behind Hanna. Hanna noticed that Mengale got out of the lines old women that time and was worried that her mother would got out too. Out of an impulse as soon as Mengale turned his back Hanna pulled her mother to her place and stood in her mother’s place. She knew that she would have to go through the selection again. At that second Mengale turned around and Hanna was worried that Mengale saw her action. Mengalle stopped in front of Hanna and asked her why her face was so pale. Hanna knew that her life were on scale. She smiled and looked right in his eyes. She answered in German “I’m always pale. It’s my natural color”. Mengalle asked where she got her germane language from and she said her father was German. Hanna’s father was Czech and served in the Austrian army. Mengalle asked “Jew?” and Hanna instinctively said “No, catholic”. Mengalle looked at her for a moment and said, “you will drop dead anyway” and moved on. Hanna stayed standing in the line shocked and shaking. Her life was given as a gift once again.
At nights Hanna’s mother used to lye on her and hides her with her body because Mengalle used to visit the blocks and choose young girls for his “medical” experiences.
At that time Oscar Shindler sent a request to the commanders at Auschwitz camps and Grosrozen to send him back his workers to start a weapon production at his new factory in Morvia. In a few days the men were released and sent back from Grosrozen to Brinlitz, but the women were not released. Shindler sent his secretary to Auschwitz in order to influence the camp commander to release the women and promised her his ring in ruturn. The secretary got to Auschwitz and had an appointment with the commander with gifts and jewles, while herself used as a sexual bribe. Then, one morning S.S men announced in one of the orders that every woman whose name was called will leave the line and march forward. After a calling of few names they realized that “Shindler’s list” was taking out of the camp. The other prisoners realized from Hanna’s and the other women who worked for Shindker’s reaction that they are going to be rescued from Auschwitz and with every one name that was called few more women stepped out who were not from the list. A confusion was made and one woman who was like a leader announced “there is a mistake here. We are a group of women, professional workers at the weapon factory and other women are going out instead of us. I know the whole group!” The Germans believed her and ascended her as to identify. Names were called again and Hanna got out of Auschwitz. When they got Shindler’s factory in Brinliz in Buchnia they met 700 men, Hanna’s father was among them. At the Factory Hanna worked with a perforation machine and afterwards cleaned ammunition with acid which it’s steams her eyes. The workers worked in a hall, which was on the first floor of the building and lived o the second floor, in the two halls they were sleeping. They stayed there for six months and during that hole period they did not leave the building. “Schindler took care of us”, says Hanna, “We realized that he ‘. Shindler supplied them bread and margarine from his own money. His wife Amily used to walk by us from time to time during work hours and give secretly Chocolate. One day a rumor got to them that an order got out, according to it as soon as the Russians get near to Brinlich the workers will be shot. Shindler tried to convince the S.S men not to follow the order by gifts and parties that were thrown for them as a bribe. One day all of the men were taken out to a near forest and dug holes. They realized that the holes were meant for them in case that he Russians would come and were worried that even Shindler wouldn’t be able to save them. They had awful fear from dying so close to the end of the war, after years of continuing and daily fight to survive.
A miracle happened and Germany surrendered before the Russians came near. It was a morning of May, a spring day, the S.S women weren’t arrived and he workers weren’t told to come down to the work hall. Someone spread a rumor that probably someone put a bomb in the factory and soon they would all explode. They set on their beds and waited to their ends. There was silence and after a few hours they started coming down. The factory’s gaits were open and one of the guys came out to the street. The war was over. All the Germans ran out of he factory beside shindler. After a couple of hours the Russians arrived. They opened the warehouses and took food and weapon. Some of the survivors jumped on the food and gorged. Hanna’s mother said they couldn’t eat to many because they were starving for many years. Hanna and her mother ate few while others paid their lives for their eagerness. Germans got in to the factory and put the workers in German homes. It was the first time Hanna slept in bed in years. She took a shower and ate in front of a table. Although the Germans gave them what they needed their attitude toward them was very hostile. They look at them with hate and treated them like dogs. But the Germans were afraid of them because they had to follow the orders. A few days later, on May of 1945 Hanna’s family left the German house they were staying at and moved to Praha.

THE PHOTOS.
In Brinlitz Hanna’s mother sewed a fabric wallet, which was hung with long ribbon on Hanna’s neck. Hanna kept in it photos of her brother that she hidden in her mouth in Auschwitz. Two weeks before the release Hanna forgot the photos in the showers. She woke up in the middle of the night and panicked because she realized that the wallet was not on her neck. She searched them in the showers but didn’t find them. Hanna felt again a horrible loss. Nothing was left from her brother.:

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