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Displaying: 151 – 175 of 289 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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151. Janina Prot
old, her parents divorced; Janina left Warsaw and went to live with her father near the Polish town of ... Radom, while her brother Tomas remained in Warsaw with his mother. Janina, or Jana as she was ... affectionately known, loved to read. 1933-39: When Jana was 12 she moved back to Warsaw to attend ... Warsaw. Thinking it might be safer downtown, they rushed to stay at her aunt's apartment. But on
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152. Fela Perznianko
Vistula River near Warsaw. Her father was a respected attorney. As a young woman, Fela worked as a hat ... designer in Warsaw, until she married Moshe Galek when she was in her late ... and Moshe raised four daughters. 1933-39: In 1936 the Galeks moved to Warsaw, attracted by the ... she was hesitant to begin a new life someplace else. Warsaw fell to the Germans on September 28, 1939
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153. Hela Los
One of nine children, Hela grew up in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Her father was an art and ... Miedzeszyn, located a short train ride's distance from Warsaw. 1933-39: Hela and her family were still ... at their vacation home when the Germans entered Warsaw on September 28, 1939. As soon as it became ... possible, they returned to Warsaw by foot, only to find that their house had been partially destroyed. That
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154. Jozef Wilk
bombing Warsaw, the Polish capital, but Jozef was too young to join the army. The Germans reached Rzeszow ... on Sunday, September 10. After that, Jozef made his way to Warsaw ... where he joined his two older sisters. 1940-43: In Warsaw Jozef became a sapper in a special unit ... Warsaw ghetto uprising, his unit was ordered to blow open part of Warsaw's ghetto wall so Jews could
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155. Rachela Rottenberg
located some 60 miles south of Warsaw. One-quarter of the city's 100,000 prewar population was Jewish ... Warsaw. They got separated along the way. Rachela and her mother made it to Warsaw just before the city ... was surrounded. After Warsaw surrendered on September 28, they returned to German-occupied Radom ... camp in Radom was moved in 1943, they managed to escape. They went to Warsaw, where Rachela's cousin
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156. Shmuel David Bursztyn
city of Warsaw. Shmuel owned and operated a bakery on Zamenhofa Street. In 1920 the Bursztyns and their ... his business and was working for the Kagan Bakery, one of Warsaw's largest kosher bakeries. Germany ... weeks, Warsaw fell to the Germans on September 28. 1940-42: When the ... Warsaw ghetto was set up by the Germans in November 1940, the Bursztyn's apartment ended up within
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157. Odon Jerzy Wos
Odon was the third of four children born to Roman Catholic parents in Warsaw, Poland's capital ... For four weeks they bombed Warsaw; there were corpses and blood ... everywhere. On September 29 Warsaw surrendered. 1940-44: At 16, Odon joined the Polish underground ... [Armia Krajowa], and trained for combat and sabotage. On August 1, 1944, the Warsaw uprising began. He
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158. Mieczyslaw (Marek) Madejski
's capital of Warsaw. His father was a real estate developer and his mother was a housewife. Mieczyslaw, or ... Poland on September 1, 1939. During the siege of Warsaw that month Mieczyslaw delivered supplies and ... Germans in Warsaw in open combat [Warsaw Polish Uprising]. On the fifth day ... in Warsaw on September 20, 1944. He escaped several days later from a camp at Pruszkow and went into
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159. Refugee's writings
Yiddish writings of Josef Fiszman, a refugee writer from Warsaw. These are some Inside pages of
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160. Edith Goldman Bielawski
-1930s, the Goldmans moved to Warsaw where Edith's father opened a down feather factory. On September 1 ... 1939, the Germans invaded Warsaw; three weeks later Warsaw fell. 1940-44: Edith and her family ... were among those forced into the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. The next
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161. Ethel Stern
Ethel was born to a Jewish family living in Warsaw. When she was 9, her family moved to the town ... of Mogielnica, about 40 miles southwest of Warsaw. Ethel's father spent much of his time studying ... birth to a baby boy in January 1940 in Warsaw. By November, the Jews in ... Warsaw were confined to a ghetto. Ethel's husband traded gold pieces for food and goods. When mass
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162. 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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163. 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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164. Sylvia Winawer
apartment in the center of Warsaw. Sylvia's mother collected art. 1933-39: Sylvia attended a private ... invaded Poland and reached Warsaw in September 1939. 1940-44: In October 1940 the Germans ... forced Sylvia's family to move to the Warsaw ghetto. In the ghetto she gave ... deported from the ghetto in 1942. Sylvia and her parents escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and survived
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165. Zofia Yamaika
Zofia was raised in a well-to-do, prominent Hasidic Jewish family in Warsaw. Uneasy with the ... Europe. 1933-39: When Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 28, 1939, Zofia was 14 years ... club, which printed antifascist posters and leaflets and distributed them throughout Warsaw. The work ... Warsaw. The ghetto was sealed in November 1940. Through Spartacus, Zofia trained with a pistol smuggled
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166. 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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167. 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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168. 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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169. 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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170. 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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171. 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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172. Refugee's notebook
Notebook of Josef Fiszman, a refugee writer from Warsaw. He sold articles to Jewish newspapers
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173. 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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174. 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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175. 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
