Paula Bromberg was born in Lodz, Poland on October 15, 1924. Paula survived the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and was liberated from a women’s camp near Mauthausen on May 6, 1945. She met her beloved husband, Harry Bromberg, in a Displaced Persons Camp where they married. Paula Bromberg passed away on October 16, 2013.
Paula Bromberg
Nationality: Polish
Location: Auschwitz Concentration Camp • Austria • Genoa • Italy • Lenzing Concentration Camp • Missouri • Nonantola • Poland • St. Louis • United States of America
Experience During Holocaust: Family Died During the Holocaust • Family Died in Concentration Camp • Family Died in Gas Chambers • Liberated • Lived in a Displaced Persons camp • Lived in Multiple Concentration Camps • Sent to Concentration Camp • Sent to Ghetto • Was a Forced Laborer • Worked in Factory
Mapping Paula's Life
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“If you survived this and you were the only one, do you know what sense of guilt you live with? Why me? Who was I? I had such beautiful people in my family...”
- Paula Bromberg