Dvora Milka Semmel (1884 – 1943)
Dvora Milka Semmel was born in Bursztyn, Galicia in April 1884, to Marjem Reiza née Feldbau and Yecheskel Weisser. She married Baruch Semmel, and the couple moved to Czernowitz, Bukovina following the outbreak of World War I. Dvora and Baruch had five children: Chana, Tzila, Yuli, Tzvi and Sarah.
The family was confined in the Czernowitz ghetto in 1940. In August 1942, Dvora, her husband and two of her children (Tzvi and Tzila) were deported to the Mikhailowka labor camp in Germany, where she was forced to pave roads and work in the quarry. On 26 April 1943, Dvora and her daughter Tzila were executed together with another 53 prisoners. Baruch and Tzvi escaped from the camp, joined the partisans and survived.
Arnold Daghani (1909 – 1985)
Born in Suceava, Bukovina, to a German-speaking family. In the late 1920s, he studied art in Munich and then in Paris. In the early 1930s, he moved to Bucharest where he changed his last name from Korn to Daghani and began working as a professional artist. After his marriage in June 1940 to Anişoara Rabinovici, Daghani and his wife moved to Czernowitz (Cernăuţi). In October 1941, with the initiation of Operation Barbarossa, the two were deported to the Czernowitz ghetto, and then sent to forced labor at Ladizhin in June 1942. Two months later, they were incarcerated in the Mikhailowka labor camp in Transnistria. In June 1943, Daghani was ordered to create a mosaic of the German eagle at the Dohrmann company headquarters in the adjacent town of Gaisin. A month later, the couple escaped to the Bershad ghetto. Through the intervention of the Red Cross, they were freed on 31 December 1943, and made their way to Tiraspol. They arrived in Bucharest in March 1944, where they remained until the end of the war. In 1958, the couple immigrated to Israel, but eventually settled in England.
