Lea Klygerman
Lea Klygerman was born on April 28, 1937, in Ostrowiec, Poland.
Her parents called her Lola.
In November 1944, Lea was deported to Neuengamme in Hamburg along with the other children. She was murdered just one 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, Poland, and lived on Ilzecka No. 43.
Lea’s mother was called Ester, and her father Berek. Berek worked as a hydraulic engineer, but was a fitter by trade.
In 1939, Lea’s sister Rifka was born.
On August 3, 1944, the entire Klygerman family was sent to Auschwitz, where Lea was separated from her family.
Lea was tattooed prisoner A-16959, and Rifka, who had stood right behind her in line, became A-16960.
Their father Berek was deported from Auschwitz to Blizyn, a camp south of Radom, and then to Sachsenhausen in October 1944. Before his death in February 1945, he had been in Buchenwald.
Rifka’s time and place of death remains unknown.
Her mother Ester survived the war and returned to Poland, searching desperately for her daughters.
Unable to find any traces of Lea or Rifka, Ester later immigrated to Israel, remarried, and gave birth to another daughter, Amalia.
In honour of Lea, the Youth Club Burgwedel in Hamburg, the Lea-Klygerman-Haus, was named after her.