Born: Esther Pelman
Łódź, Poland
November 20, 1926
Died: April 13, 2009
Esther Davidson, the youngest of six children, was born on November 20, 1926 in Łódź, Poland. Her father was a rabbinical scholar and her mother supported the family by operating a clothing business. The family lived in their home in the Łódź ghetto until the ghetto was liquidated in August 1944. Davidson was sent by train to Auschwitz, then to Bergen-Belsen and finally to Dachau where she was transported daily to labor at the Geislingen factory. At the end of the war she was sent to the Landsberg Displaced Persons (DP) camp near Munich, Germany. There she met her husband and together they organized a school to train Jewish refugees how to fish. The couple was married at Bergen-Belsen and immigrated to the United States in 1950. They settled in McAllen, TX.
Parents:
Yitzhak Pelman, d. 1935
Pesach Ferenbach Pelman, d. 1940
Siblings:
Josef, d. in Holocaust
Fela, d. in Holocaust
Samuel, d. in Holocaust
Rivka (Rebecca), d. in Holocaust
Sara, d. in Holocaust