She and her father mutually supported each other during the following years, successfully evading arrest and deportation, until he died during the Passover of 1943. Her mother, who endured the ensuing privations with uncommon tact and cheerfulness, died the same year. Within three months of the occupation the town's residents of Jewish origin were required to move into a newly designated Ghetto, which was subsequently declared off limits to outsiders on 8 February 1940 and sealed to the outside world on. At the age of 12 she saw her world crushing down around her after the Nazis invaded her town on 8 September 1939. (At least on some occasions, Zyskind will spell her maiden name "Sala Plagier": see External links below.) Zyskind's childhood in Łódź was a very happy one, as she was swaddled in love and support from family members. Sara Zyskind was born in Łódź to the family of Anschel (Anszel) Kalman Plager (1897–1943), a native of Drohobycz, and his wife Mindla, née Biederman (1900–1940), who came from a well-known family of Łódź industrialists. An unidentified girl child works in the paper factory in the Łódź Ghetto
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