About Malla Carl

Malla's parents lived in Kalisz, Poland where her father was the unofficial spokesman of the Jewish community in the 1920s. In order to be granted permission to establish another Community bank many documents had to be completed and sent to Warsaw. All the long, drawn-out official correspondence, communicated over a period of several years, was written by Malla's mother Trina Lubinsky Blumenkrantz (1890-1952), who had a lovely handwriting. She had learned Hebrew and Yiddish in the home, but was taught how to write Polish, Russian, and German in the secular school system. She also was gifted in drawing, and Malla remembers her romantic illustrations of ladies with large hats.