Doris Friedman

"Faith and trust in G-d."

Name at birth

Divora Stern

Date of birth

05/18/1921

Where were you born?

Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia now Ukraine

Where did you grow up?

Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia

Name of father, occupation

Shlomo Stern, Delivery service, brick maker

Maiden name of mother, occupation

Antonia Kahan, Homemaker

Immediate family (names, birth order)

Parents and three daughters: me, Shari and Rose

How many in entire extended family?

30-50 or more

Who survived the Holocaust?

Me and my two sisters, Shari and Rose

My parents, Rose and I arrived in Auschwitz in 1944. The men and women were separated. I was with my mother and my younger sister, Rose. At the Selection, Mengele asked me if this woman was my mother or my sister. I answered honestly that this was my mother. Mengele then sent my mother to the line for the gas chamber. My mother’s last words to me were, “Take care of Rosie as if she were your own child.” And I did.

In 1939, my other sister Shari fled to Russia, she wound up in a Russian prison in Siberia. She was allowed to leave Siberia in 1947, two years after the war ended.
To learn more about this survivor, please visit

The Holocaust Memorial Center Oral History Collection

https://www.holocaustcenter.org/visit/library-archive/oral-history-department/friedman-stern-doris/

Name of Ghetto(s)

Mukacevo

Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)

Auschwitz Birkenau / Beindorf / Bergen Belsen / Braunschweig / Neuengamme / Oxenzall

Where did you go after being liberated?

I was taken to Sweden

Occupation after the war

Seamstress

Spouse

Eugene Friedman, Wholesale meats