Hania (Anna) Lewkowitz

Born: Hania Rozenblat
Mińsk Mazowiecki
March 15, 1935

Hania, or Anna, Lewkowitz was born on March 15, 1935 in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland. Her father Samuel had a degree in finance from Warsaw University. Her mother Eta stayed home taking care of their only child.

When World War II began in September 1939, they lived in Warsaw. In 1941, the whole family, including Hania’s paternal grandfather and his two sons, were moved into the Warsaw ghetto. At the end of the year Hania’s parents, hoping that it would be safer and easier to survive in a small town, moved to Mińsk Mazowiecki.

A few months later they had to move again to the part of town where the ghetto was established. The ghetto was liquidated on August 21, 1942, the day known as “Bloody Friday.” Hania’s father and grandfather were taken that same day to the killing center of Treblinka and were murdered a few hours later.

Hania left the ghetto the day before the massacre and, with the help of a Christian woman, she moved back to Warsaw and was in hiding until the end of the war. She learned that the rest of the family perished in ghettos and concentration camps.

Hania and her husband Gregory eventually moved to Sugar Land, Texas. Their only daughter, Cindy, and her husband live in the Woodlands, Texas.

Parents:
Samuel Rozenblat, d. Treblinka, 1942
Eta Rozenblat, survived