Lea Klygerman
Lea Klygerman was born on April 28, 1937, in Ostrowiec, Poland.
Her parents called her Lola.
In November 1944, Lea was taken with the other children to Neuengamme, in Hamburg, and was murdered a week before her eighth birthday.
Unfortunately, there is no known photograph of Lea Klygerman.
The only photographs we have of her are those taken by the SS during the 'medical' experiments.
We deliberately chosen not to reproduce them.
The Klygermans were from Ostrowiec in Poland, where they lived at Ilzecka No. 43.
Lea's mother's name was Ester, and her father's Berek.
Berek was a fitter by trade and worked as a hydraulic engineer.
In 1939 a second daughter, Rifka, was born.
On August 3, 1944, the entire family was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where Lea was seperated from her family.
Lea was tattooed prisoner A-16959 and Rifka, who stood behind her, A-16960.
Her father was deported from Auschwitz to Bliżyn, a camp to the south of Radom, from there to Sachsenhausen in October 1944, and later to Buchenwald, where he died in February 1945.
Nobody knows where little Rifka was killed.
Ester Klygermann survived and returned to Poland but failed to find any traces of her daughters Lea and Rifka.
She emigrated to Israel, remarried, and had a daughter named Amalia.
In honour of Lea, the Youth Club Burgwedel in Hamburg, the Lea-Klygerman-Haus, was named after her.