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Lena Küchler-Silberman. Lena Küchler-Silberman (Hebrew: לנה קיכלר-זילברמן, January 1910 – 6 August 1987) [1] was a Polish member of the Jewish resistance who saved children during The Holocaust and helped to resettle them afterwards. [2] She is considered the most famous “surrogate mother” of child Holocaust victims.
It was reality. Lena Küchler-Silberman, 1945. Lena Küchler-Silberman was a teacher, educator and psychologist, but more than anything, she was a mother. She was born in 1910 and grew up in Wieliczka, Poland. After completing her studies in the Hebrew gymnasium in Kraków she went on to study philosophy, psychology and pedagogy.
Nov 5, 2023 · The film My 100 Children tells the story of Lena Kuchler-Silberman, a Holocaust survivor and teacher in Poland who established an orphanage for 100 Jewish children in Zakopane, Poland in 1945 and later brought them to Israel. Lena was a surrogate mother to these children — she clothed them, fed them, listened to their stories and gave them hope again.
Aug 6, 2010 · In 1953, Schaff moved to Brooklyn to live with her brother, Chaim, and kept in touch with Kuchler until the older woman died. Frances Schaff will introduce “Lena: My 100 Children” on Wednesday ...
Jun 13, 2010 · Some 50 Holocaust survivors, all part of Lena Kuchler's "hundred children," convened Wednesday in order to mark the author's 100th birthday. Lena, who passed away 23 years ago in Israel ...
My 100 Children. In the Spring of 1945, Holocaust survivor and psychologist Lena Kuchler single handedly created a home for orphaned Jewish children in Krakow, Poland, following World War II. In 1949, a wave of violent anti-Semitism forced Lena to flee with the children to France and later to Israel where Lena says goodbye to the children as ...
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Jun 18, 2019 · Even as Lena reestablished her life in Israel, she kept her nearly 100 unofficially adopted children close to her heart and kept in touch with them long after they entered adulthood. Written by Erin Parfet. Despite the death of her own daughter, Lena Küchler-Silberman dedicated her life to saving other Jewish children from the grips of death.
