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Treblinka Death Camp "Remember Me"
The following list shows details of the people who were deported to Treblinka death camp, and were either murdered or survived. The list is not a list of names, but names where generally some details are known, albeit brief. A limited list of full names, with no biographical details, only will follow in due course:
Alphabetical Listing of Treblinka Survivors and Victims ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reizl Abramowicz
Educated in Korczak’s orphanage. She worked there and was deported to Treblinka together with Korczak, the other staff and the children.
“Dr" Adrian A member of the camouflage team, expert in speculation
Robert Altschul
Born 24 July 1916 deported from Prague to Terezin, and then onto to Treblinka on the 8 October 1942. Probably died in the uprising on 2 August 1943
Anisfelt
Director of the Jewish Gymnasium in Czestochowa before the war. During the German occupation he was a member of the Judenrat in the Czestochowa ghetto. He was responsible for the Jewish police in the ghetto.
He wrote a diary and shortly before he was deported 4 volumes of his writings were hidden in the ghetto. Sadly after the war nothing was found. He was deported with other members of the Czestochowa Judenrat and the ghetto police force to Treblinka on 4 October 1942.
Czeslaw Augustyniak
Survived the revolt and the war and emigrated to Sweden.
Lilly Bachner
Deported from the Terezin Ghetto on Transport BT-687 to Treblinka in xxxxx 1942
Kurt Bachner
Deported from the Terezin Ghetto on Transport BT-687 to Treblinka in xxxxx 1942
Eugen Back
Born 26 November 1917. Deported from Terezin to Treblinka on the 8 October 1942. Two meters tall, he was known as “Eiffel Tower”. He was shot at the Lazarett.after falling ill with typhus.
Dr. Beck
A prisoner Doctor who worked in the infirmary in the living barracks which was established in the autumn of 1942.
Oskar Berger
Businessman from Czechoslovakia. Moved to Kielce during the early part of the Second World War. Deported to Treblinka with his wife and son in late August 1942, his wife and son were killed on arrival. In September 1942 he escaped from Treblinka hidden in a box-car taking clothing to the Reich. Arrested again he was taken to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, where he remained till liberation.
Yechiel Berkowicz
Escaped from Treblinka with Abraham Bomba, and Yechezkel Cooperman, after hiding in piles of clothing..
Aaron Berliner
Deported from Czestochowa –, a member of the Judenrat, he worked as a tinsmith after being rescued at the undressing barracks.
Meir Berliner
From Argentina who was visiting Warsaw with his wife and daughter when war broke out. They were sent to Treblinka despite their Argentinean citizenship. The wife and daughter were taken straight to the gas chambers, while Berliner was selected for labour. Berliner stabbed to death SS-Oberscharfuhrer Max Biala on 11 September 1942.
For this piece of heroism he was hacked to death with a shovel by SS- Unterscharfuhrer Miete.
Siegfried Bernstein
Born on the 27 May 1888. A musician from Cottbus in Germany. In April 1942 he was deported to the Warsaw ghetto and from there to Treblinka.
Icchok Bernsztein
A journalist who worked with the biggest daily newspapers in Poland “Hajnt” and “Moment”. He was a literature reviewer and author of biographic studies about famous Jewish writers.
In the Warsaw ghetto he worked with Ringelblum on his archive, and was deported to Treblinka in 1942.
Petr Birnbaum
Born 28 May 1923. Deported from Olomouc to Terezin and from Terezin deported to Treblinka on BU147 on the 8 October 1942.
Moshe Blanket
A friend of Abraham Krzepicki, who arrived in Treblinka, but was unable to be rescued , and Abraham was unable to say goodbye to him.
Adele Blau
Born 18 February 1888 in Vienna. Deported from Vienna to Kielce with her husband Karl. From Kielce deported to Treblinka, committed suicide in Sobibor death camp in 1943.
Karl Blau
Born 15 February 1892 in Vienna. Deported to Kielce on 19 February 1941 with his wife Adele. Blau and his wife were recognised by Commandant Stangl and selected to live, the only husband and wife partnership in Treblinka.
Blau was feared and hated because of his collaboration with the SS, after serving in the Lower Camp, they were transferred to the Upper Camp. Described as corpulent and bandy-legged. Blau was taken to Sobibor death camp to help clear up after the revolt in October 1943, and he and his wife committed suicide there.
Aharon Blaufuks
Born in Warsaw in 1894 a Jewish artist who was deported to Treblinka and murdered in 1942
Zelomir Bloch
A photographer from Slovakia who was deported to Treblinka on a transport from the Polish town of Deblin, following his previous deportation from his native town of Presov.
Bloch had seen military service as he was an officer in the Czech army, prior to the occupation by the Germans. Richard Glazar one of the survivors described him as a “good looking man of medium height with brown hair and a moustache, a strong square face and muscular body”.
At Treblinka he was appointed foreman of the labour detail which sorted out the clothing confiscated from the murdered Jews. One day in March 1943, due to a missing bundle, Zelo was transferred to the Totenlager by SS-Oberscharfuhrer Kuttner. This was a blow to the underground movement in Treblinka, as Zelo played a leading role in the planning of the revolt in Treblinka. Zelo fought in the uprising but died on the 2 August 1943
Efaam Bodnik
From Nowy Dwor and brother of Leibish, one of four people working in the smithy.
Leibish Bodnik
From Nowy Dwor and brother of Efaam, one of four people working in the smithy
Alfred Boehm
From Czestochowa, a childhood friend of Samuel Wilenberg, they lived on Fabryczna Street. German born Alfred moved to Czestochowa as a child in the 1930’s with his Polish born parents and little sister.
Alfred was deported to Treblinka from Czestochowa with his whole family, mother, father and sisters who were murdered on arrival, whilst he was selected to live. Alfred served as an aide to Alfred Galewski, the Jewish Lageraltester, and then was employed in cleaning up the camp.
To achieve this Alfred Boehm pushed a small pram around the German and Ukrainian quarters collecting rubbish from the whitewashed barrels the Germans had provided, which was then taken to the Lazarett and burnt. Alfred was killed on the 2 August 1943 next to him was his upturned pram.
Abraham Bomba
Deported from Czestochowa to Treblinka in September 1942. Worked as a barber in the Upper Camp escaped with Berkowicz and Cooperman, reached Warsaw with help from farmers and from there stayed in hiding in Czestochowa until liberation and was featured in the 1985 film “Shoah” by Claude Lanzmann
Berl Borenstein
From Legionowo
Moshe Boorstein
He escaped from Treblinka with Simcha Laski in a box-car taking clothes out of the camp. Near Lukow, in late July 1942. Both Laski and Boorstein reached the Warsaw Ghetto on the day of the “Children’s Aktion”.
Gustav Boraks
Born in 1901 in Vienun a small town near Lodz, he was a barber by profession, married with two children – Pinhas and Yossef. After being arrested and sent to Cracow – his wife obtained his release by trading her fur coat for his life.
Boraks and his family were deported to Czestochowa ghetto with his family, and from there they were all deported to Treblinka. Boraks and his family arrived in Treblinka on Yom Kippur 1942, along with his brother and sisters, who were all sent to the gas chambers, apart from himself. Boraks worked as a barber and in the camouflage detail. Photographed at the Treblinka survivors reunion in 1944 and was a witness in the John Demjanuk trial in Israel which began in 1986.
Eliyahu Boraks
Born in Kalisz in 1918. Member of the Ha-Shomer ha – Tsa’ir youth movement and joined a Zionist pioneering training programme.
At the outbreak of the war, he was drafted and served in the Polish Army. In 1940 he went to Vilnius. He was on the main steering committee of Ha-Shomer ha- Tsa’ir from 1941. In December 1941 he went to Warsaw, then returned to Vilnius and onto Bialystok. He was active in the ZOB and commanded a combat unit, and was deported in February 1943 from Bialystok to Treblinka.
Tadeusz Bornsztein
Born in Tomaszow in 1919, a Jewish artist by profession. Deported and murdered in Treblinka in 1942.
David Brat
Worked with Richard Glazar in Sorting Barracks A in the “Mens Coats Type II, described by Glazar as having buck teeth and a bony nose.
Hennoch Brener
Survived Treblinka and after the war emigrated to the United States of America
Egon Breslauer
Born on 22 October 1889. Merchant in Cottbus – Germany. In April 1942 deported to the Warsaw ghetto with his family, and from there to Treblinka
Lotte Breslauer
Born 13 July 1897 named Lotte Pakulla. The wife of Egon Breslauer – together with him and their daughter Ursula deported to the Warsaw ghetto in April 1942. Deported from Warsaw to Treblinka.
Ursula Breslauer
Born on 9 May 1930 in Cottbus, daughter of Egon and Lotte Breslauer. Deported from Cottbus to the Warsaw ghetto in April 1942 and subsequently deported to Treblinka
Brojer
Worked in the camouflage commando
Brothandel
Photographed at the Treblinka survivors reunion in 1944
Hans Burg
Born 19 March 1925
Deported from Prague to Terezin and from there to Treblinka on 8 October 1942
Lolek Bursztein
He escaped from Warsaw to Opatow. Arrived in the same transport from Czestochowa as Samuel Willenberg. He was gassed the same day he arrived.
Gisza Galina Bursztyn
Born in 1877 in Pultusk near Warsaw. Before the war she lived in Warsaw at 47 Mila Street. During the “Great Action” in the Warsaw ghetto she was taken away from a bunker and was deported to Treblinka
Hillel Cajtlin
Born in 1872. Writer and ,publicist, also noted journalist particularly for the “Haynt” – one of the biggest pre-war daily newspapers, which was published in Yiddish.
He wrote a great deal, even during the war – among other things he translated the Book of Psalms into Yiddish – but his literary legacy was lost.
Perla describes him thus:
"Hillel Cajtlin hauled himself on to the deportation cart, completely covered in his prayer shawl, he wanted to be buried in his tallit in the Jewish way.
It was a shocking sight – a cart full of women and children, all being taken to their death, and among them a tall, lone old man, with a long snow white beard, shrouded in his prayer shawl.
On this occasion the old writer came back from the Umschlagplatz."
Sick and very weak, he spent some time in the Jewish hospital. With the evacuation of the hospital during the deportation action, Hillel Cajtlin was among those sent to Treblinka on Wednesday 5 August 1942.
Chezkel / Chaskel
Hated official informer, a former butcher from Warsaw. A young man under 30 – the Germans nicknamed him “Hermann." Caught typhus but was cared for under orders in the infirmary. On the afternoon of the revolt, a prisoner dropped a twenty dollar gold coin, this was noticed by Chezkel who turned the prisoner over to Kuttner, who shot him at the Lazarett, this was mistaken by some, who thought this was the pre-arranged signal for the revolt.
Bencjon Chilinowicz
A journalist he worked with the daily newspaper “Moment." He was an expert about the Polish parliament. In the Warsaw ghetto he worked with other journalists. Deported to Treblinka with his whole family in 1942
Dr. Julian Chorazycki
Born in 1885 and admitted to medical practice in 1911. Was a well- known laryngologist in Warsaw. He was 57 years of age when he was deported to Treblinka, where he was selected by the SS to head their own clinic – The Revierstube.
A former captain in the Polish army Chorazycki was involved in the camps underground from the very beginning. As the Revierstube was near the Goldjuden barracks he was entrusted with obtaining weapons for a possible revolt, from that source.
SS- Untersturmfuhrer Kurt Franz burst into the clinic and found a substantial sum of money and after a brief struggle, Chorazycki took poison. Kurt Franz beat the lifeless Chorazycki with a whip and tried to revive him, but he died and his body was taken to the Lazarett.
Chaim Ciechanowski
Survived Treblinka and immigrated to Argentina. Photographed at the Treblinka survivors reunion in 1944
Lejzer Ciechanowski
Survived Treblinka and immigrated to Argentina. Photographed at the Treblinka survivors reunion in 1944
Cienki Brothers
Two brothers from Miedzyrzec Podlaski deported to Treblinka during the second action on 6-9 October 1942 together with about 7000 other Jews from Miedzyrzec and surroundings. They managed to escape from the camp and returned to Miedzyrzec Podlaski where they informed the Judenrat about Treblinka and the fate of the deportees. The head of the Judenrat informed the local Gestapo about them, and they were shot by the Gestapo.
Because some of the Miedzyrzec Jews heard about Treblinka some of them decided to escape from trains in subsequent deportations.
Dr Lipman Comber
Young Jewish historian before the war connected with the Jewish Science Institute in Vilna. In the Warsaw ghetto he was the leader of the dormitory for poor children. Deported to Treblinka in 1942
Yechezkel Cooperman
Escaped with Abraham Bomba and Yechiel Berkowicz
Aniela Cukier
Born in Warsaw in 1910. A Jewish artist was deported and killed in Treblinka during 1942
Josef Czarny
Born on 27 July 1926 in Warsaw. His mother and father died in the Warsaw ghetto, Czarny went to the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw because he was starving and the Germans had promised bread and jam to anyone who volunteered to work in the east.
Czarny sorted clothes and then became a Hofjuden, serving Kurt Franz, and looking after the chicken coops. He survived the revolt and settled in Israel. He gave testimony in the John Demjanuk trial which began in 1986.
Aaron Czechowicz
Arrived in Treblinka on 9 September 1942. He was one of the survivors who gave evidence to the Central Commission of Investigation of German Crimes in Poland in 1946. Settled in Caracas Venezuela.
Nachum Diamant
Escaped from Treblinka with Wladyslaw Salzberg in the summer of 1942. He returned to the Kielce ghetto where he informed the Judenrat about the truth about Treblinka. His fate is unknown.
Jakob Domb
In Treblinka he drove a wagon to collect rubbish in the lower camp. While driving near the extermination area on the day of the uprising, he shouted out in Hebrew to prisoners working across the fence “ End of the world today, the day of judgement at four o’clock”.
He survived the revolt and after the war immigrated to Israel. Photographed at the Treblinka survivors reunion in 1944
Ruth Dorfman
Remembered by Samuel Willenberg in the barbershop prior to being gassed.
Alfred Dzialoszynski
He lived in the same barrack as Samuel Willenberg
Ebert
An engineer and his son from Warsaw who worked with Jankiel Weirnik on the construction of the new gas chambers, killed by the SS.
Edek
Edek wasa a fourteen year old boy, who arrived at the ramp in Treblinka carrying his accordion, and was selected by the SS to play for them.
Played a part in obtaining a spare key for the camps armoury, by shoving a metal fragment in the lock. The SS had to remove the door, and thus the opportunity presented itself to make a mould of the lock.
Daniel Eichner
Brother in law of Zygmunt Strawczynski murdered in 1942
Israel Einshindler
Originally from Lodz worked with Oscar Strawczynski in the sorting yard. Einshindler escaped from Treblinka in a box car taking clothes away from the camp
Jacob Eisner
Escaped from Treblinka with Moshe Rappaport in January 1943. After the war immigrated to Israel
Nachum Eljaszewicz
A tinsmith from Czestochowa whom Strawczynski brought into his workshop to assist him he later caught typhus, but recovered.
Lila Ephroimson
Women’s Kapo in the Totenlager, Sonia Lewkowicz the sole survivor of the group of women who worked in this part of the camp, gave highly favourable testimony on Ephroimson’s behaviour as women’s Kapo.
Pinchas Epstein
Born on the 3 March 1925 in Czestochowa.
Epstein was deported from Czestochowa on 22 September 1942 with his family, his younger brother David was also selected for labour but killed by an SS man ‘s rifle butt.
Epstein spent almost eleven months in the Totenlager carrying corpses. After the revolt he managed to return to Czestochowa, managed to obtain Aryan papers and obtained work in Germany.
After the war he arrived in Israel in July 1948, and Pinchas Epstein testified in the John Demjanuk trial in 1986.
Moshe Ettinger
Yehiel Reichman recalled how Moshe Ettinger from his town wept and could not forgive himself for remaining alive while his wife and son had died.
Leon Finklestein
Was deported from Warsaw ghetto in the first transport to arrive in Treblinka on 23 July 1942. His wife was a gentile in Warsaw who after the revolt brought clothes and papers to Leon whilst he hid in the forest.
He was one of thirteen survivors who gave evidence in 1946 to the Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland.
Szmul Fojgenbaum
Lived in the Warsaw ghetto – deported to Treblinka in 1942
Adolf Freidman
Adolf Friedman was in his thirties from Lodz, joined the Treblinka underground group called the “Organising Committee”. Several testimonies placed him in Palestine and the Foreign Legion before the war, whilst in Treblinka he headed a work team at the Sorting Square.
Transferred to the Totenlager with Zelo Bloch, Freidman became a member of the body burning team. He was killed during the revolt.
Hans Freund
Born 18 March 1907. Deported from Prague to Terezin and on the 8 October 1942 deported from Terezin to Treblinka. A textile worker by profession, he probably died during the revolt. His wife and son were gassed on arrival at Treblinka
Marie Freund
Sister of Sigmund Freund. 82 years of age, deported from Terezin to Treblinka in September 1942
Pauline Freund
Sister of Sigmund Freund. 80 years of age, deported from Terezin to Treblinka in September 1942
Pawel Frey
Born 27 July 1913 deported from Prague to Terezin and subsequently deported to Treblinka on 8 October 1942.
Fuchs
Prior to deportation to Treblinka he worked for Polish Radio. Worked in the extermination area, in the kitchen, peeling potatoes. Also played the clarinet as a member of a small orchestra that played from time to time during the roll calls there.
Chaim Fuks
Born in Opoczno – the son of Natan and Dwora Fuks – deported to Treblinka where he perished.
Willi Furst
Born 11 November 1910 in Ostrawa. Deported from Ostrawa to Terezin and subsequently deported to Treblinka on 8 October 1942. He was known as “Little Willy” from the Goldjuden Kommando, who had been a hotelier from Moravian Ostrow, as confirmed by Richard Glazar and SS-man Franz Suchomel
Engineer Alfred Galewski
Some mystery surrounds the true identity of the Jewish Camp Elder of Treblinka
Marceli Galewski
Galewski hailed from Lodz and was an engineer by profession. Remembered by Richard Glazar as “a man in his forties, tall, slim, with dark hair. He looked and behaved like a Polish aristocrat – a very remarkable man”.
Born on 10 October 1899 in Kutno, he graduated from the Warsaw Polytechnic School in 1928 with a degree in electrical engineering. In 1929 he married in Warsaw Jadwiga Litauer, nee Kobryner, a widow. They had a daughter Romana
Bernard Galewski
Another branch of the family is represented by Dr Stefan Galewski, a physician residing in London. He left his native Lodz in 1935 and migrated to London via Switzerland.
According to him the Treblinka hero was his cousin Bernard Galewski, born in Lodz around 1900. He studied civil engineering in Germany, lived in Lodz and was married.
When the Germans set up a ghetto in Lodz, Galewski and his family fled to Warsaw from where he was deported to Treblinka in 1942.
Galewski was selected for work and was appointed Jewish Camp Elder. He was involved in the Treblinka underground movement from the beginning and helped plan the revolt
Galewski escaped from Treblinka during the revolt but after he had gone a few kilometers he felt he did not have the strength to go on, and took poison, and died on the spot, on the 2 August 1943. In 1945 Galewski along with Dr Chorazycki was posthumously awarded the Cross of the Valiant by the Minister of Defence General Rola - Zymierski
Alfred Galewski
As remembered by Treblinka survivors Samuel Willenberg and by Samuel Rajzman. Samuel Rajzman was deported to Treblinka on 17 September
While undressing I saw Engineer Galewski, of Warsaw, a friend of mine, among the workers. Galewski asked one of the Ukrainian guards to assign me to the workers brigade.
Aron Gelberd
Aron Gelbard was deported to Treblinka from Czestochowa in October 1942 and he escaped after nineteen days on 21 October 1942. When he was 8 kilometers from Treblinka he was caught by Ukrainian farmers. They stripped him of his outer clothing and left him, but somehow he reached Czestochowa. Immigrated to Israel after the war.
Gershonowitz
Father of one of Samuel Willenberg’s friend Harry Gershonowitz, who was hiding on the Aryan side. The elder Gershonowitz was deported to Treblinka with his wife, from Czestochowa.
Shlomo Gilbert
Born in 1885. Writer of novels and essays – many written in the Warsaw ghetto. He was deported to Treblinka with his daughter and gassed. None of his works were found after his deportation.
Yirmiyahu Gitler
Attorney from Czestochowa – member of the Czestochowa Judenrat. Deported to Treblinka on 4 October 1942
Jakov Glatstein
A musician, voice coach and conductor of the Bunds Tsukunft youth movement’s children choir during the German occupation. He took part in cultural activities in the Warsaw ghetto and organised choral groups of refugee children. He composed the melody to Itzhak Katznelson’s poem “Yats’a Yehudi le – Rechov” – A Jew went out to the Street”. He was deported to Treblinka and killed.
Richard Glazar
Born on 29 November 1920 in Prague, as Richard Goldschmidt. He was accepted at the University of Prague in June 1939 reading economics.
In November 1939 the Germans closed all the Universities and Richard went to live in the country to work for a farmer. On 2 September 1942 he was ordered to report to the Mustermesse – a huge exhibition hall in Prague, and from there he was deported to Terezin, the huge transit ghetto north of Prague.
After only one month in Terezin he was transported to Treblinka on Transport BU, an ordinary passenger train. His transport number was 639 and it left Terezin on 8 October 1942. His transport arrived in Treblinka at 4 o’clock in the afternoon on 10 October 1942
Selected to live, along with a number of other Czech Jews such as Karl Unger, Rudi Masarek, Hans Freund , Robert Altschul. Glazar worked mainly sorting clothes, in Sorting Barracks A , and in the camouflage commando.
He participated in the Treblinka revolt and managed to escape with Karl Unger. Together they made their way across Poland, captured at Nowe Miasto nad Pilica and taken to Tomaszow Mazowiecki, where they continue with their story that they are Czech workers, working for the Organisation Todt.
They are both accepted as gentiles, and are sent to Czetochowa to a transit camp, and then on through Moravia and Austria to Mannheim. They work for the factory Heinrich Lanz Incorporated, until they were both liberated by the American forces. After the war Glazar returned to Prague, but escaped to Switzerland with his family, after the 1968 revolt, where he became an engineer. He wrote about his time in Treblinka, and his escape in the book “Trap with a Green Fence”.
He also took part in the film “Shoah” by Claude Lanzman. After the death of his wife, he committed suicide in 1998.
Elka Godin & Shmuel Godin
Deported from Warsaw – killed at Treblinka. Grandparents of the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
Artur Gold
Born 1897 in Warsaw. Son of Michal and Helena Melodist.
Studied in London. In 1922 he established a jazz band with his cousin Jerzy Petersbuski, which became very popular. Recorded for “Columbia Records” in Hayes, near London. From 1929 performed in the famous “Adria” in Warsaw. During the 1930’s composed popular songs like “Autumn Roses”
Lived and worked with his brothers Adam and Henryk, also musicians at 122 Chmielna Street in Warsaw. In 1940 he was forced to move to the Warsaw ghetto, where he performed in “Nowoczesna”
In 1942 he was transported to Treblinka where he was forced to play for the SS, and to form a small orchestra, which played at roll calls and gave special concerts to the SS and prisoners. Gold was murdered in Treblinka during 1943.
Szymon Goldberg
Born in 1914 in Warsaw, a cabinet –maker by profession he worked in the Totenlager for four months. Deported from Radomsko.
He escaped during the uprising and met with the survivor Oscar Strawczynski in the forest ten months later. Photographed at the Treblinka survivors reunion in 1944. He died in 1976
Goldberg
Photographed at the Treblinka survivors reunion in 1944
Karol Goldberger
Born 4 May 1922
Deported from Olomouc on 30 June 1942 to Terezin, and on 8 October 1942 from Terezin to Treblinka.
Abraham Goldfarb
At the end of August 1942 the Germans carried out the expulsion of Jews from Miedzyrzec. Abraham Goldfarb arrived in Treblinka on 25 August 1942.
He worked in the Totenlager, helping to build the “new” gas chamber and carrying corpses to the mass graves. Escaped during the revolt walking in the direction of Sokolow- Podlaski, hid in the forest . Immigrated after the war to Israel he died in the 1970’s
Ewa Goldgorn
Deported to Treblinka together with her mother Rysia and her Grandmother Zina Grinfeld
Heniek Goldman
Deported from Czestochowa in the same transport as Samuel Willenbeg – he was gassed immediately.
Jakob Goncarski
Deported from Czestochowa.
Selected to live as a worker – sorting clothes.
Zygmunt Gostynski
Escaped from Treblinka and immigrated to Israel
Sonia Grabinski
Escaped from Treblinka and immigrated to Israel
Passed away in 2007
Meir Grinberg
Meir Grinberg was the Kapo of the “Blue” group and the son of a scribe
Each evening at the end of the workday when all were locked into the barracks he would stand and pray the Evening Service and end with El Male Racbamim for those that had been killed that day. Then the Jews in the barrack would say Kaddish.
The SS men would come and stand near the barrack and listen to the pleasant voice of Meir and his prayers to the memory of those whom they had killed.
Tanhum Grinberg
Born in Blonie Poland in 1913 served in the Polish Army. In 1941 he was “relocated” to the Warsaw ghetto with his mother, three younger brothers and a sister.
A shoemaker by trade, he worked in Schultz’s shop in the ghetto. One day when he came home from work, he found his apartment empty. His mother, brothers and sisters had all been taken away. Soon thereafter, Grinberg himself was deported to Treblinka.
Worked as a shoemaker, he was active in the underground and advised Rakowski the temporary Camp Elder that the stolen grenade would not work, and it was put back inside the armoury. After the revolt and his success |
