Student Profile: Josef Mintus

Gender: boy

School: School #2

RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY: jmquig Contributing Researcher

Stage 1: Identity

Student's Given Name:

Josef Mendel Mintus

Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database, Vol. 1-4 & 5

Birth Date:

1931-02-09

Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database, Vol. 1-4 & 5

Approver Comments:

This looks to be the student who signed the album. The birthdate makes him the appropriate age to have attended School #2 in 1941, and the name is an exact match.

Please note that Josef lived at Hirtenweg 27, #3, and Zietan 24.

I'll look forward to seeing what you find in Stage 2!

Stage 2: The Ghetto

Father's Name:

Abram Wolf Mintus

Hospital, Labor, Deportation, and Administrative Records from the Lodz Ghetto

Mother's Name:

Idesa Mintus

Hospital, Labor, Deportation, and Administrative Records from the Lodz Ghetto

User Comments:

It appears that Josef Mintus had 2 siblings living in the ghetto with his parents and him; their names (I think) were Mindla Mintus (b. March 8, 1925), and Dawid Mintus (b. February 27, 1926). Mindla died in the ghetto on March 23, 1944. Josef's mother also died in Lodz on September 15, 1943 from pulmonary tuberculosis. I was also able to figure out that the family was originally from Warta, Poland.

Approver Comments:

I agree on both counts--Abram and Idesa are of the appropriate age to have been Josef's parents. Next time, it would be great if you could go through in the comment box exactly how you decided that these two were Josef's parents, just so your classmates and I can follow your thought process.

How did you discover the family was from Warta?

Stage 3: Labor Camps

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Stage 4: Auschwitz & Beyond

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Stage 5: Liberation & After

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