Helen Szawzyn Diament

Bialystok, Poland

1921 - 2003

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Personal & Family

Name in US
Helen Szawzyn Diament

Name at Birth
Helena Szawzyn

Married Name
Helen (Helena) Szawzyn Diament

Date of Birth

11/15/1921

Country of Birth
Poland

City of Birth

Bialystok

Parents

Herschel (Hersch) Szawzyn
(Died circa 1926 from typhoid)

Sara Portnowicz
(Died at Auschwitz, Tattoo #74220)

Sibling(s)

Older Brother

Spouse(s)

Sigmund Diament
(11/30/1917 Sieradz, Poland – 07/11/2010 Montgomery, AL)
Married 06/05/1946 in Marktredwitz, Germany

Children

Sara Lea Diament (Spouse: Dr. Alan Richard Goodwin, 1941-2019)
(Born 1953 in Montgomery)

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Orthodox Judaism

Religious Identity (Postwar)
Reform Jewish

Dates Lived in Alabama

1949-2003

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Bessemer, Montgomery

Date and City of Death
11/09/2003 Montgomery, AL

City of Burial / Cemetery
Montgomery / Oakwood Cemetery

Holocaust

Ghetto(s) / Year(s)

Bialystok Ghetto

Camp(s) / Year(s)

Auschwitz
Tattoo #74219

Immigration & Postwar

US Sponsor for Immigration

Philip Ripko, great uncle
Bessemer, AL

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
April 5, 1949 / USAT General Harry Taylor / New Orleans