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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 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. During the Holocaust she lost her own daughter and saved the ...
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 ...
Jan 27, 2024 · In 1941, a Jewish teacher and psychologist named Lena Kuchler-Silberman found an abandoned baby named Shalom Koray in the Warsaw ghetto. She courageously helped him escape along with four other young children, giving him the name Piotr Korczak. Ms Kuchler-Silberman organized for the children to be placed in orphanages located in Polish monasteries.
Jan 21, 2021 · That was the night Kuchler decided that she and her young wards—many still healing from injuries and illnesses they had sustained over years of neglect and abuse—could no longer remain in Poland. A journey destined to take them to France, and eventually, to the infant State of Israel in 1949. Meira Erlich also remembers the night of the attack.
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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.
