A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - THE POMORSKI FAMILY
„We won’t make it Chana, everyone is dying around us”, said Rywka Giwercer to her mortally frightened sister. “We will make it, you will see, little sister”. Chana was stronger, she kept her sister’s spirits up in every moment of doubt. But now she knew that if they did nothing they would die. Germans deported a large part of the inhabitants from the ghetto in Bełżyce, where they were incarcerated, in three transports to the concentration camp at Majdanek. In October 1942, a transport was sent to the Sobibór extermination centre. Without a moment of hesitation, Rywka pulled her sister by the sleeve of her coat and walked out of the ghetto with her without looking back. Their courage, bravado and determination prevented anyone from turning them back. They only stopped in the village of Palikije, where the widower Pomorski and four of his sons gave the Giwercer sisters shelter. Chana and Rywka were safe. They spent the war turmoil with the Pomorski until liberation in August 1944. After the war, they were sending them parcels and kept corresponding. Chana settled in Israel and Rywka in the United States.
