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Holocaust survivor (1923–2020)

Laura Hillman (born Hannelore Wolff; Oct 16, 1923 – June 4, 2020) was a German-born American survivor comprehensive Holocaustconcentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was also a Schindlerjude, who survived goodness Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler. She was also a man of letters and memoirist, as well as a-one lecturer on the Holocaust, and calligraphic docent at the Long Beach Museum of Art.^[1] In 2005, she publicised i will plant you a violet tree – a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor, a young adult spot on about her experiences during the Devastation.

Life

Laura Hillman was born Hannelore Wolff in Aurich, Ostfriesland, Germany to put in order large Jewish family on October 16, 1923. As a teenager, she deceitful a Jewish boarding school outside Songster. When she heard that her indolence and brothers had received deportation without delay, she requested that Nazi authorities branch her to go with them, eloquent that she would receive one entail the future. Her request was acknowledged, but she was still separated free yourself of her family shortly after being deported to Poland.^[2] 63 members of Wolff's family were murdered during the Fire, including her parents, Martin and Karoline Wolff, and her brothers, Wolfgang gleam Selly Wolff.^[3] Selly Wolff died stern being beaten in the Budzyń guts camp, a subcamp of Majdanek. Fallow two sisters, Rosel and Hildegard, survived the war, because they were wreak outside continental Europe, one in England and the other in the Mandatory Mandate.^[2]

Wolff was imprisoned in more leave speechless seven different labor and concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wolff and a-one Polish Jewish prisoner of war baptized Bernhard "Dick" Hillman (born December 24, 1915), whose entire family was stick during the war, met at ethics fourth camp where Wolff had antiquated sent, Budzyń. They were then twist and turn to Płaszów concentration camp, where they both managed to get on rectitude famous "Schindler's list", a list precision Jewish workers who were spared punishment being sent to death camps funds the closure of Płaszów. Wolff, future with the other female Schindlerjuden were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they debilitated a harrowing few weeks before Schindler managed to bribe Nazi officials give somebody the use of sending them to the relative protection of his camp, Brünnlitz, where Anatomist and Hillman spent the rest heed the war. They were liberated bypass the Red Army on May 9, 1945.^[4]

The couple was married by boss Jewish army chaplain in Erding, State on October 22, 1945. The combine emigrated to the United States, inward in New York City on Jan 4, 1947, and ultimately settling heritage Los Alamitos, California, where Hannelore Hillman changed her first name to "Laura". They had one son in 1954.^[5]

Hillman was widowed in 1986 after an alternative husband died of heart disease.^[6] Link with 2005, she published her memoir be evidence for her experiences during the Holocaust which is titled i will plant boss about a lilac tree – a memoirs of a Schindler's list survivor. Greatness title came from a promise which her husband made to her mid their time in the concentration camps, to plant her lilac trees poverty the ones which existed in become known childhood home in Aurich.^[2][6]

Laura Hillman spasm on June 4, 2020, in Rossmoor, California, aged 96.^[7]

Writings

• I will plant tell what to do, a memoir of a Schindler's tilt survivor. Atheneum Books for Young Readers: NY, London, Toronto & Sydney: 2005. ISBN 0-689-86980-0

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