Gender: girl
School:
Gymnasium and high school for girls
Gymnasium and high school students were typically between 14 and 20 years old. A gymnasium student in September 1941 was likely born between 1921 and 1927.
The gymnasium and high school for girls was located on Otylii. The street name was changed to Ottilienstrasse when German occupation began in 1939. See
www.lodz-ghetto.com for a map of Otylii and the rest of the Lodz ghetto.
Stage 1: Identity
Student's Given Name:
Nelly Kawenoki
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Status: Submitted 4/14/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
am0815
Birth Date:
1922-06-05
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Status: Submitted 4/14/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
am0815
1922-06-05
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database, Vol. 1-4 & 5
Status: Submitted 11/13/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
majmudar
Ghetto Street Address:
Holzstrasse, 12
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Holzstrasse, 9, 5a
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Place of Birth:
Lodz, Poland
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Status: Submitted 4/14/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
am0815
User Comment:
Residence: Holz Strasse 12
Ghetto Street: Holz Strasse, 9 Flat 5A
Approver Comment:
Looks like you've found a match!
Approver Comment:
This birth date has already been entered by your classmate. To avoid duplicates in the database, I am marking your entry as "invalid" even though it is correct.
Discussion
Joel808
Confirmed
posted: 4/16/2009 | viewed: 626 | replies: 0
Stage 2: The Ghetto
Father's Name:
Symcha Kawenoki
Source: Hospital, Labor, Deportation, and Administrative Records from the Lodz Ghetto
Status: Submitted 11/13/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
majmudar
Mother's Name:
Fajga Kawenoki
Source: Hospital, Labor, Deportation, and Administrative Records from the Lodz Ghetto
Status: Submitted 11/13/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
majmudar
Approver Comment:
They would have been in their late 30s, but yes Symcha and Fajga are the most likely candidates for Nelly's parents.
Discussion
Joel808
Address
posted: 4/16/2009 | viewed: 569 | replies: 1
Stage 3: Labor Camps
No research performed on this stage
Stage 4: Auschwitz & Beyond
Camp Deported/Transferred to:
Auschwitz, Poland
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation)
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Neustadt-Glewe
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation)
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Ravensbrueck
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation)
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Approver Comment:
Thank you for entering this information from her testimony into the appropriate fields. I'll be interested to see if we ever find records in a names list that also reveal this information about the places to which Nelly was transported.
Stage 5: Liberation & After
Student's Given Name:
Nelly Kawenoki
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute)
Status: Submitted 4/16/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
bacook
Student's Married Name:
Nelly Kurianski
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute)
Status: Submitted 4/16/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
bacook
Birth Date:
1922-06-05
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute)
Status: Submitted 4/16/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
bacook
Death Date:
2007-02-14
Source: Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Status: Submitted 4/16/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
bacook
Place of Birth:
Lodz, Poland
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute)
Status: Submitted 4/16/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
bacook
Place of Death:
Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Source: Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Status: Submitted 4/16/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
bacook
Liberated at:
Neustadt-Glewe (concentration camp), Germany
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute)
Status: Submitted 4/16/2009;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
bacook
User Comment:
We also found Nelly Kurianski on a Google search. She came up as a contributor for the book The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp by Rochelle G. Saidel. In the Appendix of this book, she was listed as living in Sarasota, Florida.
Also, we found a Michel Kurianski on the Social Security Death Index and in the USC Shoah Foundation Institute who we assume was her husband. He was born in Lodz, Poland on August 5, 1919 and went into hiding in Aachen, Germany. They lived together in Barnstable, MA and he died July 20, 2005.
You can listen to both of their survivor testimonies through the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Approver Comment:
Excellent research!!! You should add (to Stage 4) that Nelly was in the following camps (based on the USC Shoah Foundation data) -->
Auschwitz I
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
Ravensbrueck
Neustadt-Glewe (where she was also liberated)
Discussions
Joel808
Confirmed
posted: 4/16/2009 | viewed: 557 | replies: 0
Research contributed by the following users
bacook
birponcz
John2011
majmudar
am0815
