Bronia Roslawowski

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Of Blessed Memory 1926 – 2010

Bronia Roslawowski was born in Turek, Poland to Bluma and Tzvi Eliezer Kibel. She attended public school and Hebrew school and displayed a talent for the violin. She also rode her bike, made dolls, invented plays, gardened, and spent summers in the country with her four siblings. Bronia survived a ghetto, five concentration camps and a death march. Arriving in Kansas City in 1947, she trained as a nurse, raised her family, and ran the M&M Bakery.

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Bronia Roslawowski Audio Testimony - August 25, 2000

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Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Auschwitz-Protocol
Black, Peter. “Forced Labor in the Concentration Camps, 1942-1944.” In A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, edited by Michael Berenbaum, 46-63.
Chelmno Death Camp
Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Pelt. Auschwitz.
Forced Labor
Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi-Dominated Europe
Gutman, Yisrael and Michael Berenbaum. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
History of Turek
Hoess, Rudolf.Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz.
Invasion of Poland, Fall 1939
The Kibel Family
Megargee, Geoffrey editor. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945.
Piper, Franciszek. “The Exploitation of Prisoner Labor.” In Auschwitz, 1940-1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camp. 71-136.
Turek
Turek Yizkor Book
Wilt, Maureen Moffitt. Love the World.

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Roslawowski, Bronia and daughters KCMO 1956

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