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Displaying: 326 – 350 of 1,022 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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326. Refugee's notebook
Notebook of Josef Fiszman, a refugee writer from Warsaw. He sold articles to Jewish newspapers
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327. 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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328. 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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329. Germany invades Poland
II. Quickly overrunning Polish border defenses, German forces advanced towards Warsaw, the Polish ... Poland. Warsaw surrendered on September 28, 1939.
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330. 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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331. 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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332. Janusz Piotrowski
rural area north of Warsaw. His father was an accountant. Janusz attended local schools, and became ... active in scouting. 1933-39: Janusz went to Warsaw to study civil engineering. On September 1 ... 1939, the Germans began bombing Warsaw. One week later, all able-bodied men who had not been mobilized
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333. Wladyslaw Tadeusz Surmacki
Born to Catholic parents, Wladyslaw attended schools in Warsaw and earned a degree in survey ... Warsaw, worked for Poland's Military Geographic Institute, and taught topography courses. He started a ... engineering colleague, but was immediately rearrested and put in Warsaw's Pawiak Prison. Wladyslaw was
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334. 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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335. 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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336. 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
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337. Henia Rzondzinski
east of Warsaw. By the early 1930s, hundreds of Jewish workers were employed in the town, some in small ... Welwel, moved to Warsaw. 1933-39: When war broke out three months ... ago, many Jews left Warsaw in a mass exodus towards the east. They were mostly young and middle-aged
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338. Majlech Kisielnicki
The second of three children, Majlech was born to Jewish parents living 35 miles east of Warsaw ... one day in late 1942. He managed to sneak into the Warsaw ghetto to stay ... on foot to Warsaw. He was later deported to the Majdanek and
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339. Welwel Wainkranc
The third of five brothers, Welwel was born to Jewish parents who lived 35 miles east of Warsaw ... cows and sold the meat to butchers in the Warsaw region. Welwel spent most of his free time with a ... pals, like to stroll along Kaluszyn's main thoroughfare, Warsaw Street. On Saturday nights it gets so
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340. Irena Elzbieta Wos
's capital of Warsaw. Irena's father owned a successful textile business. When Irena was 10, her family moved ... Germans attacked Poland. A week later, Warsaw ... deliver informational fliers before and during their August 1, 1944, uprising in Warsaw. The battle went
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341. Mendel Rozenblit
20s, he married and moved with his wife to her hometown of Wolomin, near Warsaw. One week after the ... the Warsaw ghetto. During the ghetto ... uprising in April 1943, Mendel and his family managed to escape to the outskirts of Warsaw. They decided
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342. Chil Meyer Rajchman
Chil fled Lodz with his younger sister to Pruszkow, a small town 10 miles southwest of Warsaw, where ... Nazis liquidated the railroad brigades Chil was deported to the Warsaw ... ghetto. 1940-45: After several months in the Warsaw ghetto, Chil was transferred first to the
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343. 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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344. 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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345. Welwel Rzondzinski
of Kaluszyn, 35 miles east of Warsaw. His parents were religious, and they spoke Yiddish at home ... Warsaw. 1933-39: When war broke out three months ago, many Jews left ... Warsaw in a mass exodus towards the east. They were mostly young and middle-aged men who were afraid that
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346. Walter Szczeniak
University of Warsaw, where he graduated with a law degree in 1936. He was apprenticed to a Warsaw court and ... from the U.S. consulate in Warsaw for American citizens to leave Poland immediately. Within a month the
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347. Feiga Kisielnicki
the small, predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn, which was 35 miles east of Warsaw. The Kisielnickis ... who often traveled, by horse and wagon, to Warsaw on business. 1933-39: Germany recently
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348. Gitla Zoberman
Gitla and her father escaped to Warsaw. Her sister Irene, whose Aryan features and good Polish let her ... pass as a Christian, arranged their way to the city, aided by a Polish man she'd hired. In Warsaw
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349. Lonia Goldman Fishman
knitting. After finishing high school she learned the quiltmaking trade. The Goldmans moved to Warsaw in ... the Warsaw ghetto when it was sealed off in November 1940. There in the
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350. Maria Justyna
could sneak out with false IDs. During the Warsaw uprising in 1944 Maria was caught smuggling two ... resistance leaders out of Warsaw. The men were shot on the spot. She was sent off to a concentration camp
