Скачать или смотреть Lena Küchler-Silberman took them in and gave them a home and kept them safe

“[Holocaust survivor] Lena Küchler-Silberman was a teacher, educator and psychologist, but more than anything, she was a mother” - Dr. Sharon Geva, via Yad Vashem.

After Lena lost her own daughter, Mira, during the Holocaust due to malnutrition, she escaped Wieliczka, Poland, and made her way to Warsaw, where she saved children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.

After the end of World War II, Lena traveled to the Jewish council in Krakow, where she met young children who had lost their families.

She took them in, gave them a home, and kept them safe.

One of those children was Holocaust survivor Janet Singer Applefield, the narrator of this video honoring Lena.

Janet was born in 1935 in Krakow and lost her mother, grandmother and cousins when they were gassed upon arrival in Belzec.

Three of Janet’s uncles and her grandfather were also murdered in the Holocaust.

Aided by her blonde hair and Aryan looks, Janet, with false identity papers, was hidden on a farm and survived the Holocaust. Her father also survived.
Lena Küchler-Silberman passed away August 6, 1987.

In the Summer of 2024, Claims Conference EVP Greg Schneider hosted a Zoom reunion between Janet and fellow Holocaust survivor Sara Weinstein. Both women had been taken in by Lena after they had lost their families.

You can find their emotional meeting here:    • Two children taken in by Lena Küchler-Silb...  

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