Schechter, Barbara    Search Children of the Holocaust  Barbara
Schechter (Born in 1941 - Buczacz, Poland)   Barbara was the
only daughter of Jetka and Philip Schechter. Jetka grew up in
Stanislawow, Poland, where she had lived with her parents, two
sisters and a brother. Stanislawow was a large city that had a
population of over 30,000 Jews in 1942. Jetka's father, a
decorator, had his own store, where her mother also worked.
Jetka worked as a bookkeeper in a large factory. When she and
Philip married in 1940, they moved 50 miles away, to the town of
Buczacz. Life was difficult, but the young married couple was
optimistic. Their daughter, Barbara, was born in 1941. Soon
after, the Germans invaded eastern Poland, immediately setting
out to annihilate the Jews of the region.  In August 1942, Jetka
received a desperate, pleading letter from her father. He had
been a witness, the previous year, to the mass murder of over
10,000 Jews in Stanislawow. The Jews had been rounded up and
driven out of their homes to th