Chaja-Dwojra Horonczyk
Chaja-Dwojra Horonczyk was born in 1907 in Węglowice, Poland, a third daughter to Rywka-Fraidla Horonczyk neé Heller and Shimon Horonczyk. In 1926, after Rywka's death, the family moved to France. In Paris, Chaja-Dwojra married Froïm-Ephraim Korman and gave birth to their only daughter Fanny.
During the Occupation Chaja-Dwojra sent her daughter Fanny to the “Unoccupied Zone” of Vichy France where she was hidden until the end of the war. Chaja-Dwojra hid in Paris and survived. Her husband Froïm-Ephraim Korman was deported to Beaune-la-Rolande and from there, in June 1942, to Auschwitz where he was murdered.
France, 1939. Shimon Horonczyk With His Grandchildren Raphael Friedheim (Leah’s Son) and Fanny Korman (Chaja-Dwojra's Daughter)
Chaja-Dwojra Horonczyk and Froïm-Ephraim Korman, a Jewish immigrant from Warsaw (born 1903), were married in Paris. Their only daughter, Fanny, was born in 1936. The couple lived at 3 Rue Castex. Esther Frenkel, Chaja-Dwojra’s married sister, lived on the same courtyard. Their sister Leah Friedheim lived nearby. The family made their living selling cloth and textile products.
Courtesy of Fanny Korman, Jerusalem, Israel
