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Bela Fintel was born June 25, 1924 in Brzezany, Poland to Leon and Rosa Goldman. In 1939, Bela’s father and her older brother traveled to Palestine where they remained during the war. Rosa bribed a farmer to hide her and Bela in their cellar. After the war, Bela went to Germany to study dentistry. She met a fellow survivor, Nathan Fintel. They married and in 1951, emigrated to the U.S. where Bela attended NYU Dental School. Bela died in 1957. In 1959, Nathan married Stefanie Blauzeid, a Holocaust Survivor from Poland, Bela’s classmate at NYU. Nat and Stefanie had a son Edward. Stefanie raised Diana as her own.



 

Bela [Goldman] Fintel

Brzezany, Poland