HOLOCAUST: Tomaszow Mazowiecki Poland

HOLOCAUST

( “Born in Lodz: Tomaszowskie Ghetto & Labor Camp in the Memory of Zenon Neumark” Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak)

http://www.roczniklodzki.uni.lodz.pl/rocznik_57/Rocznik_Lodzki_57.pdf

JEWS WHO HID IN PLAIN SIGHT (on Aryan side):

     Succumbed to stress of false identities:

Friedl Goldberg—jumped from a trampoline into the water

Stanislaw Grosman

Alfred Nathan Leng & wife—Wife committed suicide by swallowing Cyanide

Adam Lichtenstein-hide for a year in Warsaw then decided to reveal himself and was captured by Gestapo

Felix Mak

Jacob Rajzman

GHETTO THEATER, “KLEIN KUNST TEATER TOMASZOW’:

Artur Kahan---resident of Lodz, about 35, artistic director and director of Israel Aljuche

“Lutek” Orenbach (19201942)—literary director

Lichtenstein (1924-1943)—music director

Alfred Rotberg (4/20/1915)—cousin of Lutek,

 Wolf aka Wladyslaw Rejder (6/7/1917)-technical director & decorator

Shmuel Binem. Orenbach (5/8/1925)—from Lodz, painter, Lutek’s father

Bela Orenbach (5/8/1925—a singer, Lutek’s younger sister

Sura/Sara Rozenberg Szczesliwa (1898)

Zofia Makov—(8/8/1869)-daughter of Isidore & Sidonia,  retired pianist of Warsaw Opera, music teacher, lived in Tomaszow from 7/22/1936

OTHERS:

Hirschbrung brothers and son of one of them (he tried to save his father, and was also shot by Gestapo)

Dr. M. Hirschprung—lawyer and his two sons

Stanislaw (Samuel)Talman (1912-1983)—Jewish policeman in ghetto

Tomaszow Judenrat: Jakub Joseph Hirschprung/Hirszbrung (1886—1942)—son of Solomon Lajb—lawyer, Zionist activist; Alfred “Fritz” Hirschprung/Hirszbrung (1922—1942), son of Jakub Joseph---clerk, student of Faculty of law; Jerzy Hirschprung/Hirszbrung (1924-1942)---son of Jakub Joseph-under 18 yrs.

Moses Saniny—maintained Jewish Registry, recorded BMD until beginning of October 1942

“AKIBA GROUP”’-ages 15-18, youth resistance group:

Tusia Fuchs/Fuks daughter of Benjamin Lajzer Fuks (1895-1942)—

Isaac Rosenblat

Rachel Offman-daughter of Abraham & Chana Offman (Bornsztajn), sister of Perl

Anna Wajkselfi

Hind aka Halina Rubinek (1924-1943)shot by Nazis in Plaszow

Esther Michlewicz aka “Irene”

Rachel Artman

Abram Prywes