My name is Moshe and I am the son of Sara Shner-Nishmit. Sara Shner-Nishmit passed away in the age of 95 on October 23rd 2008.
A few additions to this excellent article.
Sejny was a Shtetl, a town with more than 50% Jews. The white synagogue, a beautiful building is still standing, operated by a local organization as an educational center, dealing also with the region lost Jewish life and culture. The Duschnitzki family lived in the region for generations. The Duschnitza estate was confiscated by the Polish governoment in 1945.
When the Germans invaded the former USSR Sara was already married. In the events at the beginning of the war she had lost her husband Izia Sapir.
After the war when Sarah returned to Kovno she worked for the soviet local authorities as a translator. At the same time she lead for about a year underground activities, helping Jews to move into Poland. She escaped to Lodz (this is the missing name in your article)in Dec. 1945 when she found out that the secret police found out about her illegal activities. You could not read this chapter in her biography because it was written before the collapse of the USSR and Sarah was afraid about her family that was still living in those years in Kovno. Sarah's mother Lisa lived in Kovno untl 1974 - Sarah never met her after she had to escape.
The Coordintazia fascinating story appeared in her last book in 2008 called "Our Children" (in Hebrew)
During her first years in Israel Sarah was a teacher in a school in Akko, teaching children of immigrants. In 1955 She joined the senior staff of the Ghetto Fighters Museum where she was an active member until the age of 92.
My name is Moshe and I am the son of Sara Shner-Nishmit. Sara Shner-Nishmit passed away in the age of 95 on October 23rd 2008.
A few additions to this excellent article.
Sejny was a Shtetl, a town with more than 50% Jews. The white synagogue, a beautiful building is still standing, operated by a local organization as an educational center, dealing also with the region lost Jewish life and culture. The Duschnitzki family lived in the region for generations. The Duschnitza estate was confiscated by the Polish governoment in 1945.
When the Germans invaded the former USSR Sara was already married. In the events at the beginning of the war she had lost her husband Izia Sapir.
After the war when Sarah returned to Kovno she worked for the soviet local authorities as a translator. At the same time she lead for about a year underground activities, helping Jews to move into Poland. She escaped to Lodz (this is the missing name in your article)in Dec. 1945 when she found out that the secret police found out about her illegal activities. You could not read this chapter in her biography because it was written before the collapse of the USSR and Sarah was afraid about her family that was still living in those years in Kovno. Sarah's mother Lisa lived in Kovno untl 1974 - Sarah never met her after she had to escape.
The Coordintazia fascinating story appeared in her last book in 2008 called "Our Children" (in Hebrew)
During her first years in Israel Sarah was a teacher in a school in Akko, teaching children of immigrants. In 1955 She joined the senior staff of the Ghetto Fighters Museum where she was an active member until the age of 92.
Sara and Zvi have 9 Israeli grandchildren.
Moshe Shner