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niedziela, 25 września 2011

Holocaust survivors in Czestochowa in 1945

Kilka miesięcy temu (pewnie na wiosnę) na stronie "Ghetto Fighters' House" znalazłem fotografię. Częstochowa, 1945 rok. Maryan stoi już po amputacji nogi. Wpisuję oryginalny tekst ze strony:


"A group of Jews, Holocaust survivors in Czestochowa in 1945. They lived in an "House for the Crippled" at No. 11 Garibaldi St., after their discharge from various hospitals beginning in May 1945. In the photo:
- Moshe Gips (on the left);
- Pinchas Burstein (second from the left), the artist known as "Maryan;"
- Mordechai Kaplan (seated third from the left);
- Yakov Katz (front row, fourth from the left);
- Chaim Wander (front row, third from the right);
- Korcik (front row, on the right; first name unknown);
- Yehuda Fuerst (back row center);
- and Elchanan Gzebinsz (back row, second from the left).
Notes: 1a) Moshe Gips lived in Mandate Palestine prior to WWII. He was stranded in Warsaw during a family visit there, and in a Nazi camp lost his left arm. He returned to Israel after the war and settled in Haifa.l 1b) Pinchas Burstein was shot in the head by an SS trooper in the Rzeszow ghetto. In the Blechhammer camp in January 1945 he was shot by an SS trooper using a dum - dum bullet that shattered Burstein's right leg above the knee. After the war he emigrated to Mandate Palestine and studied art in the Bezalel Academy, then moved to Paris where he became well known for his paintings. He committed suicide in the USA in 1977. 1c) Mordechai Kaplan lost his right leg prior to the liberation. He emigrated to Israel where he lived in Haifa. He died in 2007. 1d) Yakov Katz was sent on a death march during which his fingers [? and/or toes?] suffered frostbite. He died in Israel. 1e) Chaim Wander was born in Chrzanow, Poland. During the war he worked in a German factory where he was injured and his leg was shattered. He emigrated to Israel and several years later left for Germany and from there to the USA, where he died. 1f) Korcik, born in Lodz, was another who lost his toes to frostbite on a death march. 1g) Yehuda Fuerst was wounded by a dum - dum bullet shot by an SS trooper. Fuerst left Poland in 1946 and arrived in Mandate Palestine in April 1947. 1h) Elchanan Gzebinsz too was shot by an SS trooper in the Blechhamer camp. A doctor in a field hospital of the Soviet Red Army succeeded in saving his leg. Gzebinsz lives in Israel. 2) For further information about Yehuda Fuerst and his comrades, see Holdings Registry file No. 29543 in the Archives of the Ghetto Fighters' House".

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