Brat Moszek
Faiga cleaned her up and then figured that Zysla was not on the working list of that day. So, she hid her in a back room and put her in a box to sleep. At the end of the shift Faiga woke her up and they walked back to the barracks. That little amount of sleep helped her survive.
Zysla and Faiga were liberated on April 14th, 1945 by the 9th U.S. Army, 84th Infantry Liberating Unit. Until 1949 they stayed in DP (Displaced Person) camps in Germany. They knew they could not go back to their home in Łódź, due to antisemitism. During that time, they searched for family survivors through the Red Cross, realizing that their whole family perished in the Holocaust. In the DP camp Faiga got married to Roman Shloss and they had a daughter, Loretta. Finally, they were heading, in a 2-week journey, by boat, to New York, and then to Detroit, Michigan.
Once in America Zysla, called from now: “Sophie”, went to night school and worked during the day. In that school she met her husband Bernard Klisman, also a Holocaust survivor. They fell in love and got married. They had Mark and Lori between 1956 and 1959. Sophie was a sales woman at a prestigious woman’s clothing store. She was a very dedicated wife to her husband Bernard, and very loving mother to her 2 children. Her children got married and had a family of their own.
Sophie and Bernard never talked with us about the Holocaust because they did not want us feeling sorry for them. They hid the pain from us but had survivor friends who soon became our family.
When our kids were in school, they had to do a project about the Holocaust and that was when my mom shared a little bit of information. Just 5 years ago she was interviewed for the Holocaust Memorial Center. After that the photographer Monnie Must (together with Sabrina Must) photographed her and included her, my father, and many other survivors in a book called: Living Witnesses Faces of the Holocaust.
After that I was on the internet and noticed a colleague of mine posted on Facebook: “The World Memory Project”