
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by David Schulman, Herzliya, Israel





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Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by David Schulman, Herzliya, Israel
David Schulman was fourteen when his family was confined in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. His father Berl had already been taken away by the Germans and David did everything in his power to care for his mother and older sisters in the ghetto.
In January 1944 the Schulman family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
"Before the departure for Auschwitz she [my sister Fania] gave me the belt… Being a member of Beitar [youth movement] she had a belt from her uniform and she said, 'maybe you'll need it sometime'… It's hard for me to speak of her… This belt was given to me as a gift by my older sister Fania. I managed to preserve it through all the camps I was in."
After two months in Auschwitz-Birkenau, David Schulman was sent to various labor camps, among them the Flossenburg camp in Germany. From there he was forced on a death march and shot while trying to escape. A fellow prisoner who was a doctor treated him and saved his life. A short time later American troops liberated them and David was hospitalized. He was the sole member of his family to survive. Once recuperated, he was active in the Bricha movement and in 1948 he immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) and joined the Israel Defense Forces.
Regarding the belt that he had preserved throughout the camps he said:
" …It gave me the strength and the will to continue to live. I hoped to return it to the family and this motivated me to hide it in different places – to tie it to my legs, to put it inside my shirt and even to bury it."
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by David Schulman, Herzliya, Israel
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