Fanny Lesser’s Liberation
Fanny Lesser’s LiberationFanny Fixler Lesser, born in Majdan, a shtetl in Czechoslovakia, near Chust, was one of nine children. In 1944, the family was deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where Fanny was separated from her family. She was selected and sent to Weiswasser, a Nazi slave labor camp in Poland. During a death march a year later, Fanny and other women were exchanged by the Nazis for trucks and ammunition given by Sweden. The Swedish Red Cross then took the women to Sweden to recuperate. There Fanny learned that only her father and two oldest brothers had survived.
While on a train in Germany, in 1948 Fanny met her future husband, Max. They married and immigrated to the United States, settling in South Jersey. They have four children.
Max died in 2004, but he is memorialized in Fanny’s memoir, Lives Entwined: Fanny and Max Lesser, Holocaust Survivors, published September 2007.
on October 26th, 2007 at 5:20 am
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