This map highlights countries, regions, and place names
important to Sala’s story. Surrounding countries (in
dark brown) and select major cities (in italics) are provided
for reference purposes.
Courtesy of Matthew A. Knutzen, Assistant Chief, The
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, and Kara Van
Woerden, Senior Designer, NYPL Graphics Office
Ansbach: Site of beautiful
Baroque synagogue where Sala observed her first Jewish New
Year after liberation, September 1945,
and where Sala met and married U.S. soldier Sidney Kirschner
Auschwitz: Death
camp to which most residents of Sosnowitz were deported,
including Sala’s parents, Chana and Joseph
Garncarz, and her mentor and friend, Ala Gertner, and
Ala ’s
husband, Bernhard Holtz
Bendsburg: Location of large ghetto during occupation; early headquarters
of a regional Judenrat later incorporated into the Sosnowitz
Judenrat
Bergen-Belsen: Bergen-Belsen: First major concentration camp liberated;
in 1946, the largest Displaced Persons camp and gathering
site for more than 11,000 Jews
Geppersdorf: Nazi labor camp associated with building the ReichsAutoBahn;
the first of seven camps in which Sala was imprisoned
Neusalz: Schmelt labor camp to which Sala’s sisters Raizel
and Blima were sent
Nuremberg: Site of U.S. Army base where Corporal Sidney Kirschner
was stationed
Prague: City where Sala and her boyfriend Harry Haubenstock promised
to meet after the war
Rattvik: Site of sanatorium
where Raizel and Blima convalesced after liberation
Schatzlar: Sala’s last labor camp, liberated on May 8, 1945
Sosnowitz: Sala’s birthplace and home until her deportation in
October 1940
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