Come and meet the Polish survivor of a German slave labor camp at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

We are pleased to invite you to a meeting with Bozenna Urbanowicz-Gilbride, who survived Chemnitz, a German Nazi slave labor camp in Third Reich. 

Bozenna Urbanowicz was just seven years old when her village was invaded and occupied by Soviet troops. On several occasions, her father was arrested for hiding Jews on the family farm. At age nine, Bozenna’s family escaped from their burning village. They were later captured and sent to a Nazi slave labor camp where they remained until American troops liberated the camp in 1945. Knowing that Bozenna’s father faced possible arrest should he return to Poland again, the rest of the family contacted and were sponsored by relatives in America. They emigrated to the United States in 1947. 

To learn more about Bozenna please read her story in the Catholic League.

A Child’s Lament

Why did you leave me, Mama?
I waited for you to come back
I am all alone and looking for you
I am so scared to be alone
Why did you leave me, Mama?
Am I now an orphan?
Or you just can’t find me?
I’ll be waiting for you, Mama
Until you find me again and
Tell me you always loved me
And stay with me forever

Bozenna Urbanowicz, age 10