Mira Rosenblatt

Mira Rosenblatt was born into a large Jewish family in Sosnowiec, Poland. Besides her parents, Helena and Shlomo Isaac Rosenblatt, and her six siblings, she lived with her grandparents and a number of aunts, uncles, and cousins. In 1939, she was 15 years old when Nazi Germany invaded in World War II and forced her family into a ghetto. In 1942, she was separated from her family and deported to a slave labor camp. In early 1945, as the Russians approached from the east, the Nazis forced those still alive on a wintry death march with no rest, water, food or warm clothing. She managed to escape the group and hid in the forest, where she stayed alive by eating worms and other creatures, and sleeping in holes underneath the snow for warmth. After several days, Mira found refuge on a farm, but she was scared of being betrayed and went back to the forest. Days later, she met and successfully joined a group of dairy farmers, with whom she worked under a false identity as a non-Jew until the war ended six months later. Later that year, she was reunited with a former suitor, Henry Rosenblatt, a fellow survivor of Auschwitz. They married and emigrated to the USA, and settled in New York City. The couple had four children. Ms. Rosenblatt spoke at high schools and colleges about her Holocaust experience.
She wrote a memoir called Strength: My Memoir, with her daughter Belinda Levavi, published in 2020.