Meeting with Rachel Steiner's descendants in the USA

During my recent stay in Washington, in addition to visiting the Holocaust Museum and its archives in the Shapell Center, I met with the daughters of Rachel Adela, also known as Róża/Ruzia Roitman, née Steiner. I described the story of Róża, a partisan from Czarny Dunajec, who survived the war in the forests near Baranowicze in present-day Belarus, some time ago on the website. Meeting her daughters, who were born in Israel but later moved to the USA with their parents, was an incredible experience.

During the meeting, I learned, among other things, that her uncle Herman C. Steiner (born as the youngest of the siblings in Czarny Dunajec as Jecheskiel Szraga) had wanted to save his family during the war as an American soldier, but he had not managed to reach anyone in Poland, nor had he managed to save his brother Moses and his family, who lived in Antwerp. Only after the war, thanks to the help of the Red Cross, he managed to find his niece in one of the DP camps, but Rachel did not want to emigrate to the USA at that time, she and her husband chose the territory of the future state of Israel, but in 1963, at the invitation of her uncle, she sailed with her husband and daughters to New York and started a new life in the USA.

Not far from Washington, in Maryland, live the daughters of Rachela Adela, or Róża/Rózia Steiner Roitman: Tamar, who was born in 1948 (pictured on the left) and Esther, born in 1954.

Photo by: Michał Szaflarski

The entire history of the Steiner family from Czarny Dunajec is described here.