Lena Küchler-Silberman

Lena Küchler-Silberman (; January 1910 – 6 August 1987) She is considered the most famous “surrogate mother” of child Holocaust victims. Her story was also told in the 1987 NBC television movie, Lena: My 100 Children.

Early life and education Küchler-Silberman was raised in Wieliczka, Poland. She attended the Jewish Co-Educational Folk and Secondary School, also known as the Hebrew Gymnasium, in Kraków and later studied psychology and pedagogy at Kraków University.

Küchler-Silberman was a teacher at a Jewish elementary school in Bielsko and trained other teachers at a local college.