Building a life after the Holocaust Paula Burger In Chicago, 15-year-old Paula is accepted into high school but decides to enroll in eighth grade in order to improve her English skills first. The next year, she attends high school at the Chicago Jewish Academy. Paula...
Uprooted, again: postwar migration Paula Burger Novogrudek is no longer home to the Koladickis. Paula, Isaac, their father, and Chana make their way to Lida, a small city to the northwest of Novogrudek. There, Wolf finds work at a brewery, and Paula attends school for...
Setting down new roots in the United States Paula Burger Wolf Koladicki is eventually able to secure U.S. immigration visas for himself, Paula, Isaac, Chana and their new daughter, Fay, with assistance from HIAS and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In...
Life in the forest: history and memory Paula Burger Paula Burger, Night in the Forest. Holocaust Awareness Institute, University of Denver Reunited with their father, Paula and Isaac spend the remainder of the war with the Bielski partisans. Wolf Koladicki’s knowledge...
Liberation Paula Burger In June of 1944, the Soviet Army begins a major offensive against the German military along the eastern front in Soviet Byelorussia [today Belarus], called Operation “Bagration.” The war is not yet over but reports of Russian...
