and Zionists. They moved to Palestine where her father lost all his money in business before returning to Poland. Noemi went to Kalecka Secondary School, and then entered the School of Architecture. Following the German invasion, her brother joined an underground movement whose name she learned thirty years later, on reading the Oneg Shabbat Archive. During the mass deportations,
the young woman worked in the Bauer workshop. Then, she used her training to map out plans for two bunkers, one of which served as a hiding place for her family. But the Germans uncovered it during the Insurrection. Noemi was first sent to Maidaneck, then to Auschwitz. After doing various jobs there,
she was sent to the building sector, working with a mixed squad whose job consisted
in recopying the crematory oven plans.
The members of this squad were treated better than other deportees. They recopied the plans, and hid them in one of the camp's barracks. Noemi survived the Auschwitz death march. After the War ended, she made her Alya and became a member of Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot. She used her talents as an architect and decorator to draft decors commemorating the Uprising. She died in Israel in December 1996.
