Given name: Hela Family name: Knaperbaum

  • YES
  • Female
  • Hela
  • Knaperbaum

  • Eugenia's daughter, Eleonora's and Edzia's sister; during the German occupation hid with her sister Eleonora first at Marszalkowska Street No. 81 and later, in 1944, with her mother and sisters at Stanislawa Sokolowska's flat at Barkocinksa Street No. 14, flat 24; went to Lodz with her mother and sisters after the war and got a flat there; changed her surname to Adams; later lived at 200 Haween Avenue, New York 33.

  • Testimony of Stanislawa Sokolowska on hiding the family Knaperbaum in her flat during the German occupation. On subsequent pages: p. 7 - a clipping of 'Tygodnik Powszechny' of 22 September 1963 No 38 (765) entitled 'Polacy z pomocą Żydom 1939-1944' (Poles Helping Jews 1939-1944); p. 11 - a manuscript copy of the clipping from 'Tygodnik Powszechny' on p. 7; p. 12 - a typewritten copy of the testimony from pp. 8-10; p. 13 - a copy of the original affidavit of Eugenia Knaperbaum published by 'Tygodnik Powszechny' of 22 September 1963 No 38 (765), entitled 'Polacy z pomoca Zydom 1939-1944' (Poles Helping Jews 1939-1944) (clipping on p. 7). Written on 15 September 1964 in Warsaw, Al. Dzierzenskiego, Instytut Pana Profesora Marka, Original, longhand and typescript, 11 pages, 210 x 295 mm, in Polish + 1page. Copy: <b>Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute </b>
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    Note: the pages are not arranged in order; p. 4 is actually p.3

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