Hinda Grinblat Ella Bryir





Hinda Bryir

 

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Survivor: Code: RelatioNet HI GR 30 KA PO
Family Name: Bryir
Previous Family Name: Grinblat
Previous First Name: Hinda
Present First Name: Ella
Father Name: Bengamin
Mother Name: Gittle
Brother Name: Wilhelm
Brother Name: Henry
Date of birth: 23/7/1930
Country of birth: Poland                     
City of Birth: Kanczuga

The Interview with Hinda

Hinda was born in a small town in Poland, called Kancuga on the 23th of July 1930. Her father, Bengamin, studied in Vienna. Her mother, Gittle, raised her and her two brothers: Wilhelm who was the eldest, and Henry who was the youngest one.

One of major memories that Hinda told us about herself was her lovely collection of dolls. She told us how much she loved sewing clothesn for them  and dressing them. Even when her aunt brought her a talking doll from England, she wanted to know where the sounds came from. So she took a razor, cut the doll's stomach, and all the sawdust was scattered in the house. When she was 7 years old, she moved to Krakow, and began to study in a Polish school.



Grinblat's Family



Four years later, in 1941, Hinda and her family were forced to move to the ghetto in Krakow. After a year in the ghetto, her parents moved to an arbeitslager, but before they moved, they gave her and her little brother, Henrry, to a non-jewish family, near Wieliczka. Her parents told her that they were her uncles, and she grew up with their children. In 1945 her parents and Wilhelm took them from the non-jewish family, and ran away to hide in the forest. About a year later, the war ended.

In 1946 Hinda joined The Joint (movement) which was a charity organization that helped the Jewish community worldwide. At the camp she met Dov Bryir who was a sports trainer. After dating for a year, they got married on the 4th of June, 1947 at her parents' house. Hinda and Dov got an apartment near her parents' house. At that time Hinda worked as a waitress in a small restaurant which belonged to the Jewish community on Dolna street.

In 1949, David, their oldest son was born, and in 1950 they sailed to Israel on a ship called "Galila". At first ,they lived in tents in "Pardesia". It was crowded, 3 families in a tent, and they were with their baby. They moved to "Kfar – Sava" to live with friends in one room. Because they left their "Beit - Olim", an absorption center, they lost all the rights that immigrants received on coming to Israel. Therefore, their situation was very difficult and they had to live in a small storage house. When their situation got harder, they contacted "The Jewish Agency", and with a lot of compassion, "The Jewish Agency" agreed to accept them as new immigrants and they received their rights as immigrants.

In 1956 Ofer-Haim, their second child was born, and in 1959 they moved to new house in "Kfar-Sava". Hinda started working as a house mother in Steinberg's boarding school with a group of 40 children.  In 1983 she quit working

Now, Hinda and Dov live in "Kfar-Sava" and have 6 grandchildren, and 2 great - grandchildren

                                                                                

The town – Kanczuga

Kanczuga was a small town in Galicia, Poland, not far from Przeworsk. Over 1,000 Jews lived in Kanczuga before World Wide II. Jews made up more than 80% of the town's population, about 967 Jews.

In 1942 the Nazis rounded up Kanzcuga's Jews and marched them to the cemetery, where they murdered them and buried them in a mass grave. When the war broke out in 1939, some of the Jewish men from Kanczuga fled eastwards into what became Soviet territory. Most of the men who had fled eastwards came back to Kanczuga in the second half of 1941 following the German attack on Soviet territory. The men who came back to Kanczuga were all caught by the Germans and murdered. During the month of July 1942, the Jews who were still in Kanczuga had to get new stamps on their work permits, to enable them to stay in Kanczuga. The Jews were rounded up in the synagogue and from there sent to a nearby camp where there was a selection - the old and weak were shot in a nearby forest and around 150 young men were sent to work camps. The rest of Kanczuga Jews were sent to the death camp at Belzec.




 

             The town Kanczuga located in Poland