# Sarah Winer (b.1927) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **4th cousin 2x removed** ![[I512315.jpg|220]] **Born** 06/25/1927 — [[Bełżyce]] **Parents** [[Moszek Winer (b.1902)]] · [[Frajda Ryfka Muszkat (b.1902)]] **Spouse** [[Chanina Kam (b.1928)]] **Siblings** [[Dyna Winer (b.1930)]] ### Biography — from MyHeritage Sara Kam (born Sara Winer) is the daughter of Moshe and Frida-Rivka Muszkat Winer. She was born on June 25, 1927 in Belzyce in the Lublin district of Poland where her father owned a mill, an oil press and part of a forest. Sara had one younger sister, Dina, born in 1930. Sara and her family were staunch Zionists. She attended a Hebrew speaking Tarbut School and belonged to Gordonia and Hanoar Hazioni. The family had a country home in the village of Chrzanow where they lived in the summer. When the Germans arrived, they confiscated all their property and forced them to live in a small ghetto established in a couple of buildings around the synagogue and old Jewish cemetery. There were rumors that the holders of labor cards would not be expelled and could obtain food stamps. Sara's father worked uprooting trees, and she worked as a cowhand. In the fall of 1942 the Gestapo deported most of the Jews from the Belzyce district to extermination camps and turned the ghetto into a compulsory labor camp. Sara's father was transferred to the Poniatow concentration camp where he worked as a carpenter until November 3, 1943 when all the prisoners were shot. The rest of the family stayed in Belzyce. In the labor camp Belzyce, Sara worked at the construction of a railway track, but her mother was too infirm to work. Then on May 8, 1943 the Germans shot all the elderly, infirmed, women and children and buried them in a mass grave behind the synagogue. Only 50 girls and young women, including Sara survived. She was taken to the Budzyn concentration cam and later incarcerated in Belzyc,Wieliczka and Auschwitz. In October 1944, she was transferred to Taucha near Leipzig where she remained until shortly before her liberation by the Soviet army at the age of 18 somewhere in a forest near the Elbe River. When the war ended, she and four other girls returned to Poland in the hope of finding surviving relatives. After learning that no one else survived, she joined other a group young people in Kibbutz Lanegev in Lublin. Together, they left Poland the following year the Hesse Lichtenau displaced persons' camp in the U.S. zone. She then went to Weilheim near Munich. The following year, in late June 1947 she and other DPs traveled by made their way to Marseilles. On the night of the 9th and 10th of July 1947 they climbed into covered trucks and traveled to Port-de-Sete and boarded the Exodus, illegally bound for Palestine. When they arrived in Haifa after a week at sea, British soldiers transferred them to the Runnymede Park and sent them back to Europe. They were brought by train to Hamburg Germany and taken to new displaced persons' camps in Poppendorf and later Emden. On March 1948 she returned to Marseilles with documents claiming to be Sara Gurfinkel. She boarded The Transylvania and sailed to Palestine. Sara Winer wed fellow Exodus passenger, Chanina Kam in Tel Aviv on October 1, 1952. (From USHMM website) https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1163486 **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I512315_1.jpg|180]] ![[I512315_2.jpg|180]] *GEDCOM I512315 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions