From the Alfred – Alf Schwarzbaum collection: Postcard from Mrs. Goldberg, Basel, regarding Jadzia Weinryb and Jakob Klein, 1943

From the Alfred – Alf Schwarzbaum collection: Postcard sent by Mrs. Goldberg from Basel to Schwarzbaum in Lausanne on 14 February 1943. She writes that she has recently received a letter from her niece in Poland, Jadzia Wainryb (nee Klein), who was asking for news from her brother Jakob. Note: a card from the Zionist Coordination for the Redemption of Jewish Children exists for Fryda Weinryb, the daughter of Jadzia – Jochewet – Jacheta. According to this card and a testimony given by Fryda on 16 October 1946, it appears that Jadzia, the sister of Jakob and Towa - Eugenia, married Efraim Weinryb, a physician. Their daughter Fryda was born on 2 April 1936 in Katowice and the family lived in Dabrowa Gornicza. Efraim was conscripted into the Polish army at the outbreak of WWII and never returned. Jadzia and her daughter lived in the Dabrowa Gornicza ghetto, and were transported out of it on its liquidation. Jadzia perished in Auschwitz. Fryda was interned in a camp in Bedzin but was later resuced from it by her aunt Towa and was shelterd by Chrisitan families in Andrychow. After the war, following great efforts and with the help of the Zionist Coordination for the Redemption of Jewish Children, Fryda was retrieved from her adopting Christian family by her aunt and taken to Tarnow and then to Lodz, where she joined a "Children's Kibbutz". In October 1946, she gave a testimony to Benjamin Tene, an emissary from Mandate Palestine. Jakob, Jadzia's brother, survived the war in Palestine. For further information, see files 3802 and 4899 in the Colelctions Section, and file 41360 in Holdings Registry. 2 pages, handwritten original, in German Source file: 27017 About Alfred Schwarzbaum: Alfred (Alf) Schwarzbaum was a Jewish merchant from Bedzin, Poland, who fled to Switzerland after the occupation. In Switzerland, he set up a relief enterprise, and supported hundreds of Jews. Alfred (Alf) Schwarzbaum was born in 1896 in Sosnowiec, Poland. He later moved to Bedzin, became a businessman and started a family. In late September 1939, following the German occupation of Poland, he sent his daughter to England. In November 1939, he was jailed for several weeks in Myslowice and was interrogated by the Gestapo. After his release, he turned down an offer from Mosheh Merin, head of the Sosnowiec Jewish council, to be his deputy. Using his connections and his fortune, he was able to obtain visas for Switzerland. In April 1940, he left Poland and settled in Lausanne. Schwarzbaum soon started sending out food, clothing, money and papers to Poland. He managed to navigate between the often uncoordinated Jewish and Zionist organizations based in Switzerland, to transfer financial help to Jews in Poland. He sent hundreds of parcels to German occupied localities, via Lisbon, Sweden and Turkey. He visited refugee camps in Switzerland, and corresponded with persons living under the Nazi rule. He also produced passports, which led him into trouble with the Swiss police, who feared for violation of the country's neutrality policy. In 1945, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine. In Israel, he supported funds and provided stipends for students in need, in several Israeli institutes for higher education. He died in 1990.