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A random tweet floated past my twitter feed today from Monica Lewinsky asking people to light a virtual candle for a Holocaust victim at Illuminate the Past. I clicked on it, it must be said, more or less on a whim and lit a candle, but then was provided with a link to a specific victim.

I had to do a bit of digging since the information at the link was a bit unclear, but there was an embedded link to a scan of a page of testimony, which had been incorrectly filled in, but I'm fairly sure that Hanna Huberman, mother of Ester Miska who provided the testimony, was from Stryków in Poland. During WWII she and her husband were among the 2000 Jewish inhabitants. They were sent to the Łódż Ghetto and from there to Auschwitz. Only 20 of the 2000 jews in Styrków survived the war.

I don't know how their daughter survived to give her testimony. There is a birth date on the testimony form of 1st February 1923 but it is not clear if that is Ester's or Hanna's - if Ester's then it is possible she had left home by the time the Nazis arrived.

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