My parents came from two different worlds. At home, we celebrated Jewish and Catholic holidays equally
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Sabina Chrapek (née Hoffman) was born in Wałbrzych in 1950. She is the daughter of a Polish woman from Warsaw and a Polish Jew from Drohobych. During the war, her father, Ludwik Hoffman, was a prisoner in the labour camp in Wałbrzych, which was a subcamp of Gross-Rossen Nazi German Concentraton Camp. After the war, he settled in Wałbrzych. He was a local leader of the Jewish community for years. Sabina Chrapek attended a Polish school. The war and the Holocaust were never discussed at home. Due to her parents‘ mixed marriage, both Jewish and Catholic holidays were celebrated at home. In 1968, due to her background, she was not permitted to undertake her final school exams. She is currently the chairwoman of the Wałbrzych TSKŻ (The Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland) and an archivist at the Gross-Rossen Museum. Her husband used to be a miner in a Walbrzych mine and now runs a catering company. They have two sons.
