Malka Poncz

Malka Poncz
Malka - Mordcha - Leon

Malka Poncz was born in 1910 as the sixth or seven children in Lodz, Poland to family of watchmakers.  In 1930, she moved to Lens, France and married Mordcha David Waldfogel.  Malka and Mordcha had a son Leon, named after Malka’s father Juda Lewek.  Three of Malka’s siblings were lost in the Holocaust, but her brothers, Nathan and Joseph Pinch, had previously emigrated to Canada before the war, and her brother Eliya Poncz survived the concentration camps and later moved to joined his brothers in the United States. Mordcha’s younger brother, Chaim Waldfogel, survived the war and lived in Sweden.  Malka, Mordcha and Leon were killed in Auschwitz as well as Eliya’s first wife Estera Poncz and 3-yearold son Moses Mordcha Poncz and 5-year niece Gitel. All three surviving Poncz brothers raised families in the United States. Malka is now survived by seven great-grand nephews/nieces. 

Aunt Malka would have been proud of the success her family achieved. Among the family were/are lawyers, professors, physicists, physicians, biochemists, entrepreneurs, linguists, computer programmers and sound engineers, and investors.

The Poncz family wishes to express our condolences to all the surviving families of the Holocaust. Our family frequently thinks about that traumatic time period and appreciates this commemoration of those lost.