Hanna Lifsches with friends

My sister Hanka, or Hanna Lifsches, with her friends. In the first row you can see Efraim Ertel, our friend, who died in Szczecin in 1970. The photo was taken in Bielsko in 1936.

I had four brothers and a sister. Michal was born in 1905, Heniek in 1906, my sister Hanka, or Hanna, in 1911, I in 1915, Iziek, or Izajasz, in 1917, and between them there was one more brother who died.

We lived in Chrzanow until 1932, and in 1932 our whole family moved to Bielsko. My sister, who completed a normal public gymnasium had a job there, she was a bookkeeper in a very big clothing store.

When the war began, my mother didn't want to go with us to Lwow, she went to her sister in Chrzanow instead. And there she died, and Hanka also went to Chrzanow during the Lwow period, to be with our mother, and they both died in Kety, near Chrzanow, in a kind of ghetto sub-camp. I lost touch with my mother and sister when I was still in Lwow.