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Displaying: 176 – 200 of 289 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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176. 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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177. 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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178. 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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179. 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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180. 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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181. 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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182. 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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183. 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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184. 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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185. 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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186. 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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187. 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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188. 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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189. 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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190. 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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191. 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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192. 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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193. 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
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194. Boleslaw Brodecki
complex in a Jewish section of Warsaw. His father worked as an accountant. When Boleslaw was 8 years old ... attacked Warsaw on September 8, 1939. The bombing was relentless. Boleslaw
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195. Welwel Kisielnicki
small, predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn, which was 35 miles east of Warsaw. The Kisielnickis were ... Warsaw on business. 1933-39: The Kisielnicki family's hopes that the war wouldn't reach Kaluszyn
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196. Israel Yitzak Kisielnicki
Warsaw in the small, predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn. Israel's mother was a housewife, and his ... father was a merchant who often traveled on business, by horse and wagon, to Warsaw. Israel attended
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197. Rojske Kisielnicki Sadowsky
The second of three children, Rojske was born to Jewish parents living 35 miles east of Warsaw ... and wagon, to Warsaw on business. When Rojske was in her twenties, she married Welwel Sadowsky, a
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198. Lila Lam
her mother, brother and uncle escaped and, using bribes, got to Warsaw ... house and tried to rape her. Luckily, he let her go. During the August 1944 Warsaw uprising, Lila
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199. Herman Klein
brother were deported to a labor camp built in the ruins of the Warsaw ... ghetto. In 1944 Herman was deported from Warsaw to the Kaufering
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200. Klara Mintzberg
orphanage in Warsaw. When war broke out in September 1939, Rzeszow was ... In 1942 they fled to Warsaw and lived with Klara's mother and sister
