Sam Friedman

Żarnowiec, Poland

1911 - 1993

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Name in US
Salomon (Sam) Friedman
Name at Birth
Szlama Frydman
Yiddish Name
Szlameck Frydman
Married Name
Salomon Friedman
Date of Birth

10/03/1911

Country of Birth
Poland
City of Birth

Żarnowiec

Parents

Chana L. Larhten

Mailach Frydman

Sibling(s)

Kalma Frydman (male)
(1900 – ?)

Fajgla Blima Frydman
Estera Dwojra (Twins)
(1907 – ?)

Blima Jochweta Frydman (female)
(1909 – ?)

Chaim Frydman
(12/1910 – ?)

Jochim Frydman
(Born 1914)

Spouse(s)

#1: Chaja Kotlicki
Married December 28, 1937 in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
2 children: Ada (born 02/14/1938), Fajgla (born 06/15/1941)
All murdered at Auschwitz

#2: Frieda Entenberg (Singer)
(1910 Sieniawa, Poland – May 2, 1998 Mobile, AL)
Married December 25, 1946 in Halmstad, Sweden

Children

Rachel C. Friedman (Spouse: Dr. Elliot H. Borak)
(Born 06/1954 Halmstad, Sweden)
Married 1969

Max Jakob Friedman (Spouse: Jennifer)
(Born 04/27/1950 Halmstad, Sweden)
Author of Painful Joy – A Holocaust Family Memoir

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

1991-1993

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Mobile
Date and City of Death
03/09/1993 Mobile, AL
City of Burial / Cemetery
Mobile / Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery
Ghetto(s) / Year(s)

Dąbrowa Górnicza Ghetto
(1940-1942)
Mostly in slave labor camps during this time

Camp(s) / Year(s)

Graditz Labor Camp | Germany
(1940)

Laurahütte Labor Camp – subcamp of Auschwitz  | Poland
(1941)

Bunzlau Labor Camp then Concentration Camp – subcamp of Gross Rosen | Poland
(1942-1945)

Bergen-Belsen | Germany
(1945)

Forced (Death) Marches

February 1945, from Bunzlau to Bergen-Belsen, over a period of 6 weeks

Liberated By / Date

British / April 15, 1945 / Bergen-Belsen

DP Camp(s) / Year(s)

Celle, Germany
Evacuated there when Bergen-Belsen was burned

Cambrai Barracks | Lubeck, Germany
Hospital care

Halmstad, Sweden
Taken there by Red Cross July 18, 1945

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

1991-1993

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Mobile
Date and City of Death
03/09/1993 Mobile, AL
City of Burial / Cemetery
Mobile / Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery
Memoirs / Books

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