Sara Zyskind

Sara Zyskind was born in 1927 in Warsaw

Sara Zyskind, born Plager, was born on 26 March 1927. Her father, Anschel Kalman Plager, came from Drohobycz, and her mother, Mindla Biederman, came from a family of industrialists in Łódź. She grew up surrounded by a loving family.

The Nazis took Łódź on 8 September 1939, and the Jews of the city were moved into a ghetto. Her mother died in 1940 and her father died at Passover 1943. In August 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz, then to the Mittelsteine and Grafenort camps, where prisoners were forced to dig trenches.

After liberation she returned to Łódź in spring 1945 and found her family and friends gone. She left Poland with forged papers and crossed Europe for 2 years. She reached the Land of Israel on 15 May 1947.

She fought in the 1948 war together with Eliezer Zyskind, and they married in December 1948. She wrote books about the Holocaust, including a biography of her husband's wartime years. In 1988 she visited Łódź and Auschwitz with her husband and their 3 children.