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Frieda Goldman Friedman

Sieniawa, Poland

1912 - 1998
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Quarantine hospital in Sweden. Frieda center.
Frieda and Szlama in Halmstad, Sweden.
Szlama and Frieda on a motorcycle.
Szlama and Frieda. Brighton Beach, 1963.
Friedman Family in Coney Island.
Sam and Frieda, with children Max and Rachel.
Frieda Friedman.
Sam and Frieda.
Family Holocaust Memoir by Max J. Friedman. Published 2022.

Profile

Name in US
Frieda Friedman
Name at Birth
Frimet Goldman
Married Name
Frieda Frydman
Date of Birth

12/15/1912

Country of Birth
Poland
City of Birth

Sieniawa

Parents

Ruchela (Rachel) Entenberg

Jacob Goldman (Singer)
Murdered at Auschwitz

Sibling(s)

Brothers (8) – one died right after war, others all died
Genia only other to survive. 

Marim (Miriam) Goldman
(Born 1900; died in childhood) 

Chaja Goldman
Chaim Goldman
(Born 1901, possible twins; died in childhood)

Golda Goldman
(Born 1903, died in childhood) 

Hersh Goldman
 (1905 – 1905) 

Genia (Gertrude) Goldman
Possibly a twin
(11/8/1905 – SURVIVED)

Leib Goldman
 (06/03/1906 – murdered by Nazis)

Leon Goldman
(10/05/1907 – murdered by Nazis)

Moses Goldman
(Born 1909; died in childhood) 

Frimet Goldman
(1910? – murdered by Nazis))

Abraham Goldman
(05/12/1910 – murdered by Nazis)

Naftali Goldman
(10/08/1913 – murdered by Nazis) 

Jozef Goldman
(04/07/1917 Prague – murdered by Nazis)

Spouse(s)

#1: Abe Friedmann
(06/03/1905 – Died Buchenwald)
Married 1938 in Old Synagogue in Kazimierz, Kraków, Poland

#2: Sam Friedman (Szlama, Salomon Frydman)
(10/03/1911 Żarnowiec, Poland – 03/09/1993 Mobile, AL)
Married December 25, 1946 in Halmstad, Sweden

Children

Rachel Chana Friedman (Spouse: Dr. Elliot H. Borak)
(Born 07/17/1947 Halmstad, Sweden)
Married 1969

Max Jakob Friedman (Spouse: Jennifer
(Born 04/29/1950 Halmstad, Sweden)
Author of Painful Joy – A Holocaust Family Memoir

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Orthodox Jewish
Religious Identity (Postwar)
Orthodox Jewish
Dates Lived in Alabama

1991-1998

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Mobile
Date and City of Death
05/02/1998 Mobile, AL
City of Burial / Cemetery
Mobile / Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery
Ghetto(s) / Year(s)

Kraków Ghetto (1941-1942/43)

Camp(s) / Year(s)

Plaszow
Worked in a factory called Madritsch Plaszow
(1942-1944)

Auschwitz
(1944)

Bergen-Belsen
(1944-1945)

DP Camp(s) / Year(s)

Lubeck, Germany

Halmstad, Sweden
Taken there by Red Cross June 27, 1945

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
January 10, 1952 / MS Gripsholm / New York City
Dates Lived in Alabama

1991-1998

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Mobile
Date and City of Death
05/02/1998 Mobile, AL
City of Burial / Cemetery
Mobile / Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery
Memoirs / Books

Painful Joy – A Holocaust Family Memoir
by Max J. Friedman (son)

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