Stefania Glat album

Stefania Glat (born Stefania Mischel, 1915-1991) was the daughter of Chana Mischel and lived in Dolina. She had two siblings: Arnold and Masia (Miriam?). Stefania studied medicine in Lvov before the war. Her first husband was murdered by Ukrainians during the July 1941 pogrom in Lvov. She escaped Lvov with the retreating Soviet forces in June 1941 and worked as a nurse. She met Bernard Glat (1904-1968, born in Kolomyja, Poland) in Uzbekistan, when he was very ill. She took him to the hospital and nursed him back to health. They both worked in a Polish school in Uzbekistan. In 1946 they returned to Warsaw, Poland and later moved to Bytom. Their daughter, Anna, was born there in August 1949. In 1950 the Glat family moved to Katowice. Bernard became a professor at the Gliwice University and Stefania worked in the coal industry. After Bernard’s death in 1968, Stefania and Anna immigrated to Israel.

Bernard Glat (1904-1968) was born in Kolomyja, Poland and was the youngest of many siblings from two marriages of his father. He graduated from the Jagellonian University in Krakow with a double degree in philosophy and mathematics. He was married and had a son, Marek. Bernard was in the Soviet occupied territory during the German invasion of Poland and later was in Uzbekistan. He was very ill in Uzbekistan when he met Stefania Mischel. She took him to the hospital and nursed him back to health. They both worked in a Polish school in Uzbekistan. In 1946 they returned to Warsaw, Poland and later moved to Bytom. Their daughter, Anna, was born there in August 1949. Bernard made many efforts to find his first wife and child, but he found out that they were both murdered in Krakow. In 1950 the Glat family moved to Katowice. Bernard became a professor at the Gliwice University and Stefania worked in the coal industry.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Anna Glat Weiler

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Anna Weiler Glat in