NYPL, Letters To Sala

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Introduction Sala’s Europe, 1939-1945 Prewar Jewish Life and Deportation Nazi Slave Labor Camps The Judenrat Geppersdorf Nazi Postal System Ala Gertner Sala's Labor Camps Jewish Holidays Harry Haubenstock Schatzlar Liberation In America

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Photograph of Sala Garncarz in front of Ansbach Synagogue
Ansbach, Germany, Fall 1945
NYPL, Dorot Jewish Division, Sala Garncarz Kischner Collection

In Ansbach, Sala took a brief respite from searching for loved ones to celebrate her first High Holidays in freedom since 1940. It was at these services that she met her future husband, Corporal Sidney Kirschner.