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Actions Displays	Notebook used by Kuba Enoch Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2025/096:006 TitleNotebook used by Kuba Enoch DescriptionAddress book/notebook used by Kuba Enoch. The object includes handwritten addresses and notes including the address for Isabella Lazarus home in Sydney. Kuba Enoch was born in Krakow, Poland 1926. He was 13 years old when the war began; soon after, he and his family were rounded up into Krakow ghetto. When it was liquidated in 1943, Kuba's younger brother was removed and his parents were sent to Plaszow concentration camp. Hoping to locate his mother, Kuba volunteered to go on the next transport. He was sent to Ostrowiec, Aushwitz-Birkenau and was eventually moved to Buna camp where he remained until it was evacuated. Kuba was then marched to Buchenwald. Throughout his ordeal he was never reunited with his mother. Following liberation by U.S forces, Kuba was sent by the Red Cross to recover in Switzerland. He arrived in Australia in 1948. Production placeSwitzerland Production date circa 1946 Production periodpost World War II Subjectsurvivors, establishing new life, education, child survivors, schools & colleges, friendships Object nameBooks Materialpaper Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum collection, donated by Pearl Blasina. In appreciation to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) for supporting this archival project.

Object numberM2025/096:006

TitleNotebook used by Kuba Enoch

DescriptionAddress book/notebook used by Kuba Enoch. The object includes handwritten addresses and notes including the address for Isabella Lazarus home in Sydney.

Kuba Enoch was born in Krakow, Poland 1926. He was 13 years old when the war began; soon after, he and his family were rounded up into Krakow ghetto. When it was liquidated in 1943, Kuba's younger brother was removed and his parents were sent to Plaszow concentration camp. Hoping to locate his mother, Kuba volunteered to go on the next transport. He was sent to Ostrowiec, Aushwitz-Birkenau and was eventually moved to Buna camp where he remained until it was evacuated. Kuba was then marched to Buchenwald. Throughout his ordeal he was never reunited with his mother.

Following liberation by U.S forces, Kuba was sent by the Red Cross to recover in Switzerland. He arrived in Australia in 1948.

Production placeSwitzerland

Production date circa 1946

Production periodpost World War II

Subjectsurvivors, establishing new life, education, child survivors, schools & colleges, friendships

Object nameBooks

Materialpaper

Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum collection, donated by Pearl Blasina. In appreciation to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) for supporting this archival project.

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