November 19, 2006:
"Dad's Journey"
Esther Ingber, long time member and Daughter
of a Holocaust survivor shares her Father's first
visit to Poland since 1945.
In September 2006, Zygie Allweiss, 79, returned
to Poland to see the places of his youth. Esther
Allweiss Ingber who made the trip with her father,
will speak and show her video.
Alweiss was born May 8, 1927, in Jaslany that had
approximately 74 Jews in 1939. Jaslany is located
near the Wistula River in southern Poland. Zygie
and his brother, the late Sol Allweiss, were the
sole survivors from their family of nine children.
The teenaged brothers escaped separately from
a forced labor camp on March 7, 1943 -- the day
of its liquidation.
Janek and Janina Dudzik, a Polish Catholic couple,
hosted the Detroiters at their home in Mielec,
Poland, a city near Jaslany. Janek was 5 years
old when his parents, the late Macieij and Zofia
Dudzik, sheltered the Allweiss brothers for more
than a year (1943-1944) on the family's farm in
Chajkowa, Poland.
In 1999, a Dudzik granddaughter living in America
found the Allweiss brothers on the Internet, although
she did not know their last name. Since then,
members of both families living in Detroit and
Chicago have shared a warm relationship. This
feeling of being among relatives extended to Allweiss'
and Ingber's stay with their Dudzik hosts in Poland.
Along with showing the video, Ingber will share
her genealogical discoveries.
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