Herman Zvi Freiman (צבי פריימן) was born on March 2, 1910 in Boryslaw, Galicia — a city that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Poland, and is today western Ukraine. He was a tailor by profession, the son of Feibel and Shifra (née Rosen) Freiman.
He married before the war and had children. His wife and children perished in the Holocaust.
From July 1941 through March 1944, Herman survived the Boryslaw Ghetto and Forced Labor Camp (ZAL), one of the approximately 400–600 Jews from Boryslaw who lived through the German occupation. After the war he settled briefly in Bielawa, Poland, married Ester, and spent two years in the Ulm Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. On November 4, 1948 he emigrated to Israel aboard the ship Negba, and made his home in Kfar Ata (today Kiryat Ata).
This site presents the documentary record of his life compiled from three independent sources:
- Arolsen Archives (ITS) — TD File 790 495, DP registration cards, emigration lists, and a 1960 Certificate of Residence
- Yad Vashem — ITS database records and the Pinkas HaKehillot history of the Jewish community of Boryslaw
- Personal family photographs — portraits and family photos from his years in Israel
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