Student Profile: Hanna Poznanska

Gender: girl
School: Gymnasium and high school for girls


RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY: kwantlen18 Contributing Researcher
Stage 1: Identity
Student's Given Name:
Hanna Poznanska
Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Birth Date:
1927-04-22
Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Place of Birth:
Lodz, Poland
Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
User Comments:
There shows up to be two Hanna's with the same birth date and same address information except the last name is spelled with and "i" at the end for one and an "a" at the end for the other. It appears to be the same student based on birth date and address information.
Approver Comments:
Yes, this looks like a match. Note that Hanna appears to have moved from Tannenberg 35 to Hamburger Strasse 44 Flat 5 to Rauch Gasse 39 Flat 1 in the ghetto. One entry lists her as having registered at a new address on May 20, 1942, but the other entry lists this as the date of her deportation out of the ghetto. Also note that there is a girl named POZNANSKI, Chana Sura born 10/03/1924 who could conceivably also be our "Hanna." Although, that seems less likely.
Stage 2: The Ghetto
 
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Stage 3: Labor Camps
 
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Stage 4: Auschwitz & Beyond
 
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Stage 5: Liberation & After
Student's Married Name:
Hanna Poznanska-Linde
Catalogue of Oral History Archives (USHMM)
Mother's Name:
Felicja Poznanska
Catalogue of Oral History Archives (USHMM)
Liberated at:
Lodz, Poland
Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute)
User Comments:
From the Catalogue of Oral History Archives (USHMM):

Author: Poznanska-Linde, Hanna.
Title: Poznanska family collection,
Extent: 2 ration cards.
Summary: Ration cards issued to Hanna Poznanska and Felicja Poznanska [donor’s mother] in the Łódź ghetto.
Location: Archives
Call Number: 2002.310.1

This provides evidence of Hanna Poznanska being a donor to the archive, thus a survivor (with a new hyphenated married name).

From the Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute):

Hanna was interviewed:
Name of Interviewee Hanna Poznanska-Linde
Poznanska (maiden name).
Gender: Female.
Date of Birth: 22/04/1927.
City of Birth: Lódz (Poland).
Country of Birth: Poland.
Ghetto(s): Lódz (Poland : Ghetto).
Went into Hiding: Yes.
Liberated by: armed forces, Soviet.
Location of liberation: Lódz (Poland).
Country of Interview: Poland.
Language(s) of Interview: Polish.
Length of Interview 1:48.
Interview Code 17377.

USC Shoah Foundation archives indicates that their interviewee has the exact same birth date as the woman listed in the Lodz Ghetto Database. They are certainly the same person.
Approver Comments:
Good research!