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About Paula Perl Itzckovich
Giezelle Pash wroth about her aunt Paula Perl Ickovic:
I often remember Perl and her very fine husband Szender. My Dad often took me to see them when I was young, My mother still lives in the home I grew up in, not to far from their home. Perl was an amazing gardner, even as a very old lady, and had a meticulous house and yard, I remember. May they rest in peace!
ON THEIR BELOVED MOTHER PAULA WOLF ICOVIC z"l
As recalled by Faigy Goldberg and Shindy (Jaffa) Kestenboum June 12, 2009
A young polish man saved Paula Ickovic´s life. If the acrimoniously freight train voyage was a prelude to what is ahead, it went unnoticed by Paula 44, her daughters Faigy 22, Shindy 20, and her son Yosi 16. They have survived a bitterly difficult three days and tree night’s train transportation in to Auschwitz-Birkenow camp, in a close wagon, with no room to seat and no air to breath, and now stood on the ramp holding one another. The sunny day and the lungful of fresh air gave them hope of new beginnings. They were promised relocation to a new place with plenty of work already so scarce back home. Good, Shindy Thought, we start living again. She did not see the ashes. A whisper penetrated Shindy’s thoughts, “switch coats with your mother” she opened her eyes and saw a young man with prison stripe uniform, polish, she thought judging from his accent, and burst in to a giggly laugh; she had on a red short light coat utterly not suitable for her mother. He sharply hissed her off and repeated, now with an ordering tone “Switch your coat with your mother’s” and so they did. Moments later lined up five in a row, after being pushed and shoved by the barking Germans and their dogs, Dr. Josef Mangle and his helping stuff swallowed the bait. The mother looking now young and fit with the short red coat and the two daughters; Shindy with her mother’s black long mink coat that did not shy way her youth and beauty, and beautiful Faigy, were selected to the right column. They did not grasp they should be grateful thus for that moment, at that day, they were saved. Instead they were heart broken “I did not even say good bye to my brother Yosi” Shindy recalled years later, “I did not even see where he disappeared amongst thousands of men and boys”. They were fearful and anxious about the faith of their brother Arry, 18, and grand mother Dora Fisher Ickovic, 80, that jumped off the train, in Kosice; on the road to Auschwitz “we heard gunshots, dogs barking and German solders shouting Halt! Halt! We bowed our heads and silently prayed…” And they started walking; mother and two daughters lined up with the women and started walking. From afar, a hush young Jewish Polish prisoner that risked his life- for conversations were strictly forbidden under the watchful eyes of the SS- silently followed them; shaking his head, he compiled one more life story to his brilliant collection.
Paula and her daughters endured countless selections, horror, and hardship from the day they have arrived to Auschwitz on May of 1944, until liberated on April ninth, 1945. They did not break nor give up; they came out as triumphant and hopeful as they went in.
The mother and her two daughters miraculously never separated throughout the ordeal. Arry- caught by the Germans after fleeing the train, and Yosi, both lived to tell the heroic tale of surviving Buchenwald. Paula her children and her husband, Rabbi Alexander Ickovic, reunited and returned to their home town Tekovo in Czechoslovakia. They were awaited by the town’s people that to these days tell about the miracle of one Jewish family that made it together to hell and back, by train.
Going through memory lane Shindy (Safta Jaffa) reminiscence about her mother Paula:
Paula was educated in a rabbinical “liberal frum” household. As a young girl her bright mind and wish to learn persuaded her parents, and she was allowed to study in a privileged public school which was unusual with observant Jewish families back then. Parallel, she obtained a “Teaching Asmachta (diploma)” and instructed religion to young Jewish girls at a mixed public school in her native town Tekovo in Czechoslovakia. Her “Asmachta” came from the Grand Spinka Rebbe Israel Chaim Weiss son of Grand Rabbi Isaac Weiss the originator of the important Spinka Hasidic group within Orthodox Judaism.
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Paula Perl Itzckovich's Timeline
| 1900 |
February 1900
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| 1926 |
August 26, 1926
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Tekova, Slovakia
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| 1928 |
1928
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| 1991 |
April 17, 1991
Age 91
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April 1991
Age 91
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Israel
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