Given name: Miriam (Micki) Family name: Goetzel

  • YES
  • Female
  • Miriam (Micki)
  • Goetzel
  • Gilbert
  • 1937-09-27
  • Warszawa
  • Yes
  • From Warsaw
  • She was born in Warsaw. When she was to-years-old the war begun. She left the ghetto in 1942. She was raised by Catholic nuns outside Warsaw.
    In July 1943 her family re-joined in Hotel Polski. They were transported to a concentration camp - Bergen- Belsen. In April 1945 came the release and she travelled with her parents to France.
    In June 1945 she arrived with her family in Palestine.
    In 1946 she was placed in a Kibbutz outside Haifa. When she was 16, she transferred to a nursing school, completed a four-year course and became an X-ray nurse. She married in 1960 and has a daughter and two grandsons.
    She still lives in Israel.

  • In the source Pamiętniki Żydów; sygn. 302/231; w Archiwum ŻIH; title: Der Krieg von innen [The war from the inside] she appears as Micki Leviathan.

  • The memories of David Gilbert were written by Tim Shortridge and Michael D. Frounfelter.

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