Student Profile: Bluma Lejbowicz

http://resources.ushmm.org/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4262314

The same page of the survivor's registry also lists a "Hersz LEJBOWICZ" of Lodz, perhaps the younger brother?

http://resources.ushmm.org/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4262317

Dear Researcher:

My name is Marilyn Ludzki. My mother was Bluma (Lejbowicz) Ludzki. The Bluma Lejbowicz who signed the book is my mother, who was born in 1920.

Ichee was my mother's older brother and his Bluma, borm in 1928, was murdered--along with everyone in the household.

In Europe, people had large families. In fact my mother remembers being dressed up at age 5 for one of her older brother's wedding. It was not uncommon for the mother of a family of ten children to be pregnant the same time as one of her daughter-in-laws.

The mother of Ichee & my mother Bluma was Chaya Lejbowicz--who died in the ghetto of hunger in 1942. Chaya's other children included Hersh, Jacob Wolf, Abram (Avrum), Moishe, and Reven (Rueben). Only my mother Bluma, born in 1920 and Ruben born in 1922 survived until liberation on Jan. 19, 1945.

I believe one of the main reasons the rest were murdered was because they were married with young children and deported for extermination. My mother was 19 when war started and 24 upon liberation; this put her the class of young adults who could work and be useful to the ghetto, as was her brother Rueben (age 17 at start of the war and 22 upon liberation).

I will try to provide you with more information shortly on her deportation. I'm just as sorry as you are the the woman who visited the USHMM was little Bluma Lejbowicz's aunt--her father's kid sister.

With gratitude for your important work documenting what happened to MY first cousin (one of many many children).

Marilyn (Malka) Ludzki (Half-Sister of Lajzer & Sura Lodzki (also murdered in Shoah), TRANSPORT 10 to Chelmno (my father's children)
Elmwood Park, NJ.

Marilyn - thank you so much for your note, with so much information about your family. I Googled your mother and found her obituary - what an extraordinary person she was.

I believe that the Bluma Lejbowicz researched for this profile would be your cousin, born in 1928, as the Bluma who signed this entry attended School #8B, which was for girls aged 9-15 at the time (born between about 1926-1932). Your mother as far as I can tell, does not have an entry on this particular project because she was probably too old to be in school when the registries were created.

I also see that someone is researching your half siblings. Here is a profile for Lajzer:
http://www.ushmm.org/online/lodzchildren/projectvictim_summary.php?ProjectVictimId=7259

One reason I chose the Lejbowicz name from the list of students to research is that my grandmother's maiden name was Leibovitz, although her family did not come from the Lodz area (at least not that I know of!). But perhaps our families have some distant connection.

Thank you again for taking the time to write and share important information about your family.

Diana