Bronia’s mother had a brother living in Detroit and a sister and brother in New York. In Munich, Bronia’s mother met an American Jewish Army captain and he helped her contact her family in the United States as she did not know their address. The…

In the summer of 1944, Bronia and her family heard that Kiev was liberated. They left Armenia and traveled to Kiev. In Kiev, Bronia continued her studies in the medical school there and Bella went to university. They both lived in the dorms where…

In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin divided up Poland, Sarny became part of the Soviet Union. Bronia had the opportunity to repeat a year of high school in Russian and learn the language. She did so because Jewish graduates of a Russian high school…

Bronia Bronkesh was born Bronia Cimmerman on April 22, 1921 in Sarny, Poland. Her father Shaye worked in lumber and her mother Elke was a homemaker. She lived near her grandparents, aunts, and uncles. In 1923, her grandmother’s sister in Detroit…