with Jack Schwartz, Tzipora Hager Halivni, Michael Berenbaum and more on Jan 27, 1995
Regina Gelb is a holocaust survivor. She survived three difficult years; first, in a forced-labor camp in her hometown; then in Auschwitz-Birkenau; briefly in the concentration camp Ravensbrueck in Germany; and finally in the small labor camp Retzov, a subcamp of Ravensbrueck. She arrived in New York Harbor on February 11, 1947. After a few days, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helped her find an apartment. The Joint also helped get Gelb into a school outside of her regular district. Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn’s East New York. She remained in Brooklyn and went to Brooklyn College.
When the Cold War Era began, Indiana University needed a native Polish speaker to teach Air Force officers conversational Polish. Gelb became an instructor in Bloomington, Indiana, and finished her BA in social work there. She became an accredited member of the American Translators Association. Gelb worked as an interpreter, did commercial translations, and translated Polish books and Polish materials for books.
Source-Holocaust Encyclopedia http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007193
