Student Profile: Brandla Rudnicka

Searching through the Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database I inputted "Brandla Rudnicka" and it came up with a few results. There were two results of the same person a Brandla Radomska who was born in 1893 which makes her too old. That left two results left a Brandla Radomska born 1929 and a Brajndla Rudnicki born 1928. Both of the birth years match the right ages for the school but the name Rudnicki is much closer to the name Rudnicka than Radomska. The database gave a birth date of 13 June 1928 and an occupation of Schuelerin which means student. It also has two ghetto addresses Hamburger 11 41 and A Hitler 176. On the drop-down list of addresses there was not a Hamburger but there was a Hamburgerstrasse and there was not a A Hitler but there was Adolf-Hitler-Strasse.

Great work, and excellent process note. Rudnicki and Rudnicka are the same name, just with a male or female ending. I look forward to seeing what you uncover in the next stages.

Searching further into the Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database I discovered a transfer date of 20.03.1942. and a transfer number of 30. Using this transfer date I searched through the secondary source and found that "Between January and May 1942, more than 54,000 Lodz Jews were killed at Chelmno." This could have been Brajndla Rudnicki's fate. Searching through the Labor Cards the closest name to her first name was a "Brajna Regenwetter" but the last name was far off. The names that begin with R in the labor cards only go to "Rozenfeld" so I could not find anyone with a last name of "Rudnicka." Searching through the Auschwitz-Birkenau Prisoner list I began by searching the name Rudnicka and was able to find eight people but none had a name resembling Brandla. I then searched Rudnicki but there were no Brajndlas so I inserted B into the first name search but did not get any results. Inserting Brajndla did not gain any results either. Searching through the Catalogue of Oral History Archives, using the name “Brajndla Rudnicki,” I found a few results. There were six Rudnickis but there weren’t any Brajndlas or any names that were similar. Using an advanced google search with the word holocaust to narrow down the search, I found her name in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I also found her last name in the Warsaw Ghetto Database but there was no Brajndla Rudnicki. Ancestry.com gave me many results for Rudnicki but no one matching the name Brajndla.

Thanks for your excellent process note. You may enter Chelmno as her "camp deported to" and her place of death on this stage.