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Hanna's father had a store for construction-materials in Schanz, a suburb of Kovno , and when
she was young, she worked there as a saleslady.They had a nice house with a garden.The family
was rather rich , and had good relations with their Jewish and non-Jewish neighbours alike.
Hanna's mother, Menucha, came from Kibarti, a small town near the German border, and spoke
perfect German. Hanna attended the German Gymnasium in Kovno. She married Abrasha Schlossberg in 1935, and lived with her husband, her baby daughter Zazik and her mother Menucha in Schanz. Her father had died before the war (1936?). On June 22nd 1941, the Nazis invaded Lithuania. Already in the first "Akzia" , 22.6.1941, Hanna's husband and her brother were shot .In August, Hanna , her daughter and her mother, had to leave their house in Schanz and move into Ghetto Slavodka , Kovno. In the Ghetto, they stayed in one appartment, and next stayed Abrasha's parents, Nechome and Pinchos, with their daughters Tsila, Myurke and Malka (who was married and had a child, Sara). In October 1941, 12,000 Jews from the Ghetto were murdered at the "Ninth Fort". Hanna managed to get a job with the Germans outside the Ghetto, and received a special permit to leave the Ghetto each day. When the "Kinder Akzien" (sending the children to the death camps) began, Hanna smuggled her daughter Zazik and later on also Sara out of the Ghetto, through thefences, in a big rucksack, and left them with a Polish family. She sold some valuables she had , and used the money to pay these gentiles , to hide the children in their homes. Zazik had to move and switch hiding places from time to time. At one time, she was hid by a young Polish woman, who was the lover of an SS officer. Later, she hid in a museum building, but after that building had been bombed, she was taken to a house in the village. A Polish gentile, named Pranas, agreed to hide her at his relatives farm, telling them that Zazik was his illegitimate daughter. In April 1944,the young children and the old people from the Ghetto were sent to death camps. All that time, Hanna stayed in the Ghetto, but after her mother was sent to Schtutthof, a death camp in Germany, she decided to escape too.She managed to do so just before the final extermination of the Ghetto, which took place on the 12th of July 1944.On that day, all remaining Jewish men and women were sent in cattle wagons to death camps (the women to Schtutthof and the men to Dachau). Hanna hid in a shelter that Pranas had found for her, separated from her daughter , until the end of the war. After the liberation of Lithuania in 1945, Hanna came to the village where Zazik was hiding, and took her and also Sara with her. ( Mofshowitz's brother had suddenly arrived from Russia, and took Sara with him. Later, Sara got married. Frida came to visit her in Russia, and sent her a visa to the States. Sara moved to the US with her husband and a daughter she had addopted in Russia.) Hanna and Zazik moved on to Vilna , and then crossed the border to Poland and from there to Austria. In Austria , Hanna met her second husband Arie, and got married in 1948. |
| Hanna met Arie Lasnick in 1946 , in Austria , when both of them worked within the "Bricha" organization , smuggling Jewish refugees from the camps in Europe to Palestine. |
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Hanna and Arie immigrated from Austria, onboard the "Champolion", in 1951. They lived in Ramat-Gan for a short while , then moved to Haifa. |