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| Bronislaw Honig, son of Rose and
David Honig, lived in Krakow, one of the largest cities in Poland, with
600,000 Jewish residents, David Honig was a salesperson at a
hardware store, and Rose Honig was a dressmaker. Rose gave birth
to Bronislaw Honig on October 8, 1935. On September 6, 1939, the
Nazis stormed Poland and took control of Krakow, causing the Honig's
feeling of security to collapse. Terrible anti-Jewish measures
were immediately put into action.
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At Auschwitz Dr. Herta Oberhouser killed children with oil and evipan injections, and removed their limbs and vital organs. |
| Jews were forced into the ghetto by Nazi's, and brutality accelerated with murder, violence, and terror. The Nazis started to confiscate Jewish property. In 1941, eighteen thousand Jews were imprisoned in the ghetto and many died from disease, starvation, and murder. | |
| Bronislaw Honig was a well-mannered little boy of seven, when the Nazis ended the Krakow Ghetto in March, 1943. Rose and David Honig were sent to the work camp Plaszow, after the Krakow ghetto finally ended. They managed to smuggle Bronislaw with them, hidden in a suitcase on top of a cart filled with clothes. | |
| With the help of other inmates they were able to hide Bronislaw from the Nazis. But when other children were being discovered and shot, they arranged for young Bronislaw to be smuggled out of the camp. A young, non-Jewish woman, Jarosh, offered to take the child. With a stern warning to keep absolutely quiet, Bronislaw was hidden in a backpack and given to the woman. The last time Rose and David saw their child was in the September of 1943. Rose and David Honig survived the Holocaust and went back to Krakow to search for their son. They never found him. Jarosh was believed to be discovered with Bronislaw and sent to Auschwitz, along with Rose and David Honig's son, Bronislaw Honig. | |
