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Survivor Profile

JADWIGA  SZERMANSKI

JADWIGA

SZERMANSKI

(1914 - 1980)

PRE-WAR NAME:

JADWIGA ASZERMAN

PLACE OF BIRTH:

WARSAW, POLAND

DATE OF BIRTH:

OCTOBER 6, 1914

LOCATION(s) BEFORE THE WAR:

WARSAW, POLAND

LOCATION(s) DURING THE WAR:

WARSAW GHETTO

STATUS:

SURVIVOR

  • brief BIOGRAPHY BY NANCY GORRELL

    According to Jadwiga’s granddaughter, Laura Pelligrini, “There is very little we actually know. My grandmother wouldn’t talk about it.” We do know that she spent considerable time in the Warsaw ghetto. The information we do know about Jadwiga, Laura found in Janina Bauman’s nonfiction book, Winter in the Morning: A Young Girl’s Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond. Jadwiga married Stefan Fryszman, emigrated from Poland to Argentina, but we don’t know when. She had one daughter, Patricia Victoria who resides in Argentina, and a granddaughter, Laura who resides in Branchburg, New Jersey. Jadwiga died in Argentina in 1980.

  • Sources and Credits:

    Credits:

    Biographical information and family photographs provided by Laura Pelligrini.