[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”2\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”8\/12″][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes” text_color=”color-122240″ heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”fontsize-978791″ text_height=””][\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”525513″]On 13 April 1945, the HASAG Leipzig subcamp, a part of the Buchenwald camp system, was evacuated as the US Army approached. The approximately 5000 female prisoners were driven on death marches. Only a few women who were too ill or weak for the march remained behind. One of them was the Polish Jew Anna Kurz. She was heavily pregnant – and gave birth to her daughter Estare on the day of the evacuation.<\/p>\n
Miraculously, the child survived. On 19 April, the Americans entered Leipzig, liberated the mother and daughter, and took them to a hospital. In June 1945, they were both able to leave for Switzerland with the help of the Red Cross. A year later, Abraham Kurz, Anna\u2019s husband and Estare\u2019s father, joined them there. He survived the Buchenwald subcamp Schlieben and a death march to Theresienstadt.<\/p>\n
In 1951, the Kurz family emigrated to the USA. Estare became a history teacher and married the psychiatrist David Weiser in 1967. The couple now lives in New York and has two sons and four grandchildren. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”6\/12″][vc_single_image media=”2128″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_caption=”yes”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”211250″]Anna and Estare Kurz after their liberation from the HASAG Leipzig subcamp, summer 1945.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”658719″]At this point, Anna Kurz did not yet know that her husband Abraham had also survived.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”](Estare Weiser)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ inverted_device_order=”yes” el_class=”postflow wechsel”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”bottom” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″ el_class=”smallcolumn”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”bottom” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”137999″]The reunited family in Switzerland, summer 1946.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”156574″]Estare is 15 months old. There had been an older brother, but the SS murdered the three-year-old Moishele in 1944 in the P\u0142asz\u00f3w Concentration Camp.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”](Estare Weiser)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”-5″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1616348285375{padding-right: 6em !important;}”][vc_single_image media=”2129″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ back_color=”color-934223″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_custom_heading text_color=”color-122240″ heading_semantic=”h3″ text_font=”font-124191″ text_size=”fontsize-212371″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”762548″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]”The Holocaust completely changed their lives. They had lost their families, their homes, their land, their benefits of inherited wealth, their connections, the roots in their culture, and the support of their families. My parents were the only couple from their town, both of whom had survived the Shoah.”[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”4\/12″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”171902″]Estare Weiser’s account of her parents’ story, 28 May 2020.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”](storyworth.com) [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”8\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”2\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/12″][vc_single_image media=”2130″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_caption=”yes” el_class=”schatten”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”4\/12″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”136245″]Buchenwald Concentration Camp registration file for Estare’s father Abraham Kurz, 5 August 1944.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”158465″]Abraham and Anna Kurz had been forced laborers in an armaments factory of the Leipzig-based HASAG corporation in occupied Poland. When the Red Army approached in the summer of 1944, the concern relocated the factory to subcamps of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in central Germany. On the form, Abraham\u2019s wife’s name is given as Channa K., and no dependents are listed. Their son Moishele was already dead.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”](Arolsen Archives)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ back_color=”color-457822″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_custom_heading text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”150966″]FURTHER INFORMATION:[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”194791″]Anne Friebel, Geboren im KZ – die Geschichte von Estare Weiser, in: Newsletter of the Leipzig Nazi Forced Labour Memorial, Issue 9, December 2020, pp. 14 – 16. 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