Sigmund Diament

Sieradz, Poland

1917 - 2010

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Personal & Family

Name in US
Sigmund Diament

Name at Birth
Zigmunt (Alt: Zhigmunt, Zÿgmund) Diament

Date of Birth

11/30/1917

Country of Birth
Poland

City of Birth

Sieradz

Parents

Joseph Diament

Leah (Leondina) Jakubowicz

Sibling(s)

None

Spouse(s)

Helene Szawzyn Diament
(11/15/1921 Bialystok, Poland – 11/09/2003 Montgomery, AL)
Married June 5, 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

1949-2010

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Bessemer, Montgomery

Date and City of Death
07/01/2010 Montgomery, AL

City of Burial / Cemetery
Montgomery / Oakwood Cemetery

Holocaust

Camp(s) / Year(s)

Auschwitz
Tattoo #123326

Buchenwald
Prisoner #142330

Liberated By / Date

US Army / Somewhere between Buchenwald and Jena, Germany

Immigration & Postwar

US Sponsor for Immigration

Philip Ripko, wife’s great uncle
Bessemer, AL

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