Who was Fanny Judelowitz?

Answer 1

Name: Fanny Judelowitz

Date of Birth: October 27, 1992

Place of Birth: Liepaja, Latvia

Fanny was the oldest of three girls born to a Jewish family in Baltic seaport of Liepaja, a city with a large Jewish community in Latvia. Fanny attended a Jewish primary school there. Her parents owned and operated a shoe store and small shoe factory. 1933-39. As a young girl her life revolved around activities with betar, a Zionist youth movement founded in Riga in 1923. She studied about Palestine (Israel) and her Jewish heritage. In 1935 her mother gave birth to her little sister, named Liebele. Fanny finished secondary school at the age 16 and left home to go to a university were she studied nursing. 1940-44. In 1940 the Soviet Union occupied Latvia and Fanny returned home. A year later, the Germans immediately began rounding up and shooting Jewish men including her father. On December 15, 1941, her family was informed that they were being deported. They were rounded up and put into prison. A guard was releasing her when she told him she did not want to leave without her mother and sisters, he told them to get them and get out. Fanny was eventually deported, and over the next few years was imprisoned in five concentration camps. She was Liberated in Kiel on May 4, 1945.