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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.
Lena Küchler-Silberman wrote one of the first books about women and family in the Holocaust. My Hundred Children was first published in Hebrew in 1959 and became a bestseller. Reprintings quickly followed, and the book soon became part of a trilogy when Lena Küchler-Silberman wrote The Hundred Coming Home [ ha-Mea Li-gvulam ] and My Mother’s Home [ Beit Imi ].
Combine Editions. Lena Kuchler-Silberman’s books. Average rating: 4.36 · 89 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors. My Hundred Children. 4.36 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions. Want to Read. saving…. Want to Read. Currently Reading.
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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.
Jan 1, 1987 · Mass Market Paperback : 253 pages. ISBN-10 : 0440952638. ISBN-13 : 978-0440952633. Grade level : 7 - 9. Item Weight : 4.9 ounces. Best Sellers Rank: #2,329,696 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books) #61,657 in Military History (Books) Customer Reviews: 4.2 15 ratings.
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Jun 18, 2019 · Despite the death of her own daughter, Lena Küchler-Silberman dedicated her life to saving other Jewish children from the grips of death. She lived under an alias name smuggling children out of the Warsaw ghetto, including babies laying on top of the corpses of their mothers, disguised herself and the Jewish children she sought to save as Catholic to facilitate safe passage, and fostered ...
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Jan 21, 2021 · In the late 1950s, Lena Küchler, the director of the Zakopane children’s home who’d resolved to get her young wards out of Poland after the attack on their home, wrote in her memoir My Hundred Children: “In our apartment on Yarkon Street, close to Tel Aviv’s beach … we are holding a reception for my hundred children.
