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Displaying: 326 – 350 of 1,045 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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326. Moshe Galek
village near Warsaw. Moshe was a self-made man, having founded a successful pearl-button factory in the ... four daughters. 1933-39: In 1936 the Galeks moved to Warsaw, attracted by the city's cultural ... "Whoever can save himself, should!" Warsaw fell to the Germans on September 28, 1939. 1940-43: The ... Galeks were forced into the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. The family
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327. Dawid Szpiro
Dawid was the older of two sons born to Jewish parents in Warsaw. His mother supported the ... journal Literarishe Bleter. The Szpiros lived in the heart of Warsaw's Jewish district, where ... ghetto in Warsaw was sealed off. Dawid and his family obtained sufficient ... there, Dawid obtained false papers for his mother, who had escaped the Warsaw ghetto, and for his
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328. Pawel Wos
and they married in 1918. The couple moved to Warsaw where they raised 4 children. In 1930 Pawel ... Germany attacked Poland and began bombing Warsaw. Their apartment building was close to German bombing ... . Pawel was arrested in Warsaw during the August 1944 uprising and deported ... war, he returned to Warsaw.
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329. Michal Scislowski
miles east of Warsaw. Michal's father was an intelligence officer in the Polish army. Because his duty ... doctrine. 1940-45: In 1940 Michal escaped to Warsaw in German-occupied Poland. His mother and sister ... joined him later and they opened a delicatessen outside of Warsaw. In September 1942 he was arrested by ... again in March 1943 and held in Warsaw's Pawiak Prison. After interrogation and beatings, Michal was
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330. Pawel Zenon Wos
Warsaw. Pawel's father had worked for the Polish merchant marine before starting his own textile business ... guard and escaped from a POW camp. 1940-44: Back in Warsaw Pawel went to work for his father ... 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Thirty-two days into the uprising, the Germans arrested his family, and ... war, he returned to Warsaw. In 1961 he immigrated to the United States.
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331. Zofia Rapaport
Zofia was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw. Zofia's father, a ... Warsaw to hide with one of her father's former employees. Zofia was sent to the country to live with a ... her back to her parents in Warsaw. They were confined in a tiny room and ... for two years they spoke in whispers and didn't dare go near the window. After the 1944 Warsaw
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332. Ben Stern
Ben was born to Jewish parents in Warsaw. When Ben was 7, his family moved to Mogielnica, about ... 40 miles from Warsaw. Ben's father spent much of his time studying religious texts. His wife managed ... studies in the evening. 1933-39: After attending school in Warsaw, Ben returned home to help in the ... Warsaw ghetto to the Majdanek concentration camp. There, he was assigned to
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333. Frimit Bursztyn
Bursztyns lived in the heart of the same Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw where Frimit ... comfortable, two-bedroom apartment in the same neighborhood at 47 Mila Street. Frimit attended Warsaw public ... at Warsaw's excellent Kagan Bakery. Nothing could have prepared them for the ... 's family's apartment was in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto, which was closed
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334. William Bein
Committee (JDC) in Poland, with children at the Srodborow home for Jewish children, near Warsaw. The home
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335. Abraham Blum
Organization (ZOB). Blum participated in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Poland
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336. Hunger in the ghetto
Children eating in a Warsaw ghetto street. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943.
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337. Ben Kamm
Warsaw ghetto and joined partisan units to resist the Nazis. At the end of the war he discovered he
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338. Refugee's writings
Yiddish writings of Josef Fiszman, a refugee writer from Warsaw. These are some Inside pages of
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339. A captured Jewish resistance fighter
during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, April 19-May 16, 1943.
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340. Yitzhak Gitterman (left)
Yitzhak Gitterman (left), Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) director in Warsaw, meets with the ... representative of an Orthodox Jewish organization. Warsaw, Poland, date uncertain.
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341. Page from the Stroop Report
page from SS officer Juergen Stroop's report on the Warsaw ghetto ... ." Warsaw, Poland, April-May, 1943.
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342. Germans search Jews for weapons
prior to the German occupation of Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland, October ... photographer, documenting the investigative work of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in occupied Warsaw for the
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343. Germany invades Poland
border defenses, German forces advanced towards Warsaw, the Polish capital city. This footage from German ... newsreels shows German forces in action during the invasion of Poland. Warsaw surrendered on September 28
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344. Gisha Galina Bursztyn: Maps
Born to Jewish parents in Poland, Gisha Galina Bursztyn moved to the city of Warsaw after she ... married. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw fell four weeks later, and a ghetto was set
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345. Jozef Wilk: Maps
teenager when Germany invaded in 1939. Jozef left for Warsaw and joined a special unit of the Polish ... resistance. During the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Jozef's unit was tasked with blowing open part of the
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346. Gisha Galina Bursztyn
Bursztyn, to the city of Warsaw, where Shmuel owned and operated a bakery on Zamenhofa Street in the city ... September 1, 1939. After being attacked for four weeks, Warsaw fell to the Germans on September 28 ... . 1940-42: When the Warsaw ghetto was set up by the Germans in November
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347. Jozef Rapaport
couple settled in Warsaw. 1933-39: The Rapaports lived in the suburbs, and Jozef worked as a ... Lvov in 1941, the Rapaports managed to return to Warsaw where they were hidden outside the ghetto by ... speaking in whispers and never standing near the window. During the 1944 Warsaw
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348. Raszka (Roza) Galek
Roza was born to a Jewish family in a predominately Catholic village near Warsaw. Her ... frequently did business in Warsaw so the family moved there in 1934. They loved ... [the Yishuv] in early 1939. Roza had just begun language studies at the University of Warsaw when the
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349. Mosze Fuks
radio, appeals were broadcast calling Jewish youths to Warsaw to help defend the city. Mosze and his ... brother, along with hundreds of others, set out for Warsaw. They walked for three days, but when they got ... to Warsaw, it was too late--the city had been destroyed. After two weeks they returned home to
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350. Leah Kohl Rapaport
Joseph Rapaport, and the couple settled in Warsaw. 1933-39: The Rapaports lived in the suburbs ... Nazis and shot, but he survived. In 1942 the Rapaports managed to return to Warsaw to hide with one of ... you keep a synagogue here!" After the 1944 Warsaw uprising
