The year was 1942. He had relayed a message instructing his daughter to look through a window at the building across the street from the repurposed jail in which she was temporarily housed.
After surviving a Nazi concentration camp as a teen, Mrs. Frieberg went on to co-found the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, in Toronto’s North York district, which has taught thousands of students and others of all personal and religious backgrounds about Nazi atrocities to ensure that the victims are never forgotten.
A self-described troublemaker, Mrs. Frieberg also founded the Holocaust Survivors of Canada group, served as Ontario region president for the Canadian Jewish Congress and headed such organizations as B’nai Brith Women’s Toronto chapter, among others. She earned several accolades, including a Governor-General’s Meritorious Service Medal and B’nai Brith Woman of the Year award .
The youngest of two daughters, Gerda was born to Josef and Elfriede Steinitz on Oct. 12, 1925, in Bielszowice, a Polish coal-mining town – where sirens signalling deadly tunnel disasters often blared. After invading Poland in 1939, the Nazis rounded up Jewish men in Upper Silesia, including Josef Steinitz, and took them away. Gerda, her mother and sister were sent penniless to a Jewish ghetto in Jaworzno, Poland, and then, separately, to the Ober Altstadt concentration camp.“We worked in a spinning mill. … I was sent to work in the machine shop to replace parts for engines which were breaking down,” Mrs.
“We lost 172 members of our close and extended family,” she wrote. “We realized that this town was no longer our home.” The Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, founded by Gerda Frieberg, has taught thousands of students and others of all personal and religious backgrounds about Nazi atrocities to ensure that the victims are never forgotten.Six weeks later, they rejoined Louis in Toronto, where he had secured an apartment and a job. Mrs.
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