Regina Silver
Name at birth
Regina Zylbersztejn
Date of birth
04/15/1915
Where did you grow up?
Sarnaki, Poland
Name of father, occupation
Worked in a flour mill
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Father, step-mother, seven brothers, Regina.
Regina Silver was born in 1915 in Sarnaki, Poland. Following the German invasion in Poland in 1939, Regina and her husband were sent to a work camp in Diktarka, Russia. After moving from Diktarka to Turkestan, Regina lost her child after he contracted measles and pneumonia. She had another child while in Turkestan who survived. After the war, Regina and her family lived in Bielawa, Poland until she left with her husband and family for Canada in 1950.
To learn more about this survivor please visit the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interview.php?D=silver§ion=19
To learn more about this survivor please visit the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interview.php?D=silver§ion=19
Where were you in the Former Soviet Union?
Diktarka, Turkestan
What DP Camp were you after the war?
No
Where did you go after being liberated?
Back to Poland
When did you come to the United States?
Came to Canada
Where did you settle?
Canada
When and where were you married?
Poland in 1936
Children
Four children, two boys, two girls.
Grandchildren
Five grandchildren
Interviewer:
Charlene Green, Voice/Vision of Michigan, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Interview place:
Farmington Hills, MI
Interview date:
06/21/1982
To learn more about this survivor, please visit:
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/silver/
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/silver/
