NiUSIA HOROWITZ Part 2 (English Subtitles)

What Auschwitz number did Niusia get? Bronisława Horowitz (born April 22, 1932, Kraków), daughter of Regina née Rosner and Dawid. A prisoner of the German Nazi concentration camps in Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Brünnlitz, saved by Oskar Schindler. Niusia, as she was called at home, lived with her parents at św. Wawrzyńca near the city power plant. Nearby at ul. Berek Joselewicza was home to her grandparents, Franciszka and Henryk Rosner. Henryk Rosner was a famous violinist, he had his own music band (Krakowska Orkiestra Salonowa), in which three of his five sons played. The Horowitz grandparents, Sara and Szachne, lived in Podgórze, Sachne was a typesetter at the printing house of the Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny concern in the Press Palace. Niusia's father, Dolek, worked as an accountant in the Zenit company trading in technical materials before the war and briefly during the occupation, while Niusia's mother, Regina, was a milliner. Soon the family expanded, on May 5, 1939, Niusia's brother, Ryszard, was born. In September, when she was about to enter the first grade, the war broke out and the family, together with her grandparents Horowitz, uncle Edmund Horowitz, his wife Roma and daughter Halinka, evacuated to the east. Ryszard, who was just a few months old, was left in Krakow in the care of his nanny, Antosia Strózik. They managed to reach Janów Lubelski, but after September 17, 1939 and the attack of the USSR on Poland, the family returned to Krakow. In March 1941, the Germans established a ghetto for Jews in Podgórze and Niusia's parents were allowed to stay there. They moved to their grandparents, the Horowitz family, at ul. Limanowskiego in Podgórze, then they lived at the Podgórze Market Square. Niusia recalled: 'In the ghetto, my parents were assigned to work at Luftgau at ul. Copernicus. And I got Ersatz [permit – note. ed.] and I went to work with my parents. During the June 1942 displacement, Niusia's grandfather, Henryk, and Franciszka's grandmother, Rosner, were deported to Bełżec, a German extermination camp, and murdered there.