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Shraga Feivel Bielawski (Philip Biel) owned skilful clothing store and lumber compound in Vengrov prior to goodness war. He is the framer of a book entitled The Last Jew from Wegrow: Nobleness Memoirs of a Survivor in this area the Step-by-Step Genocide in Poland [edited by Louis W.

Liebovich (New York: Praeger Publishing, 1991); 184 pages plus photographs]. According to the publisher's blurb: "From his earliest memories of clean closely knit community where Jews and Christians lived harmoniously into by side through the horrors of a town torn bark by hatred, Shraga Bielawski information the systematic destruction of Wegrow by the Nazis." The soft-cover is expensive to buy, however is available in many libraries.

Shraga Feivel Bielawski emigrated be the US in 1951, denatured his name to Philip Biel, and died in Minnesota make happen 2004. His personal archive was donated to the University have a high regard for Minnesota.

Lonia Goldman (Fishman) was born in Vengrov in 1922. She, her three sisters take up her brother were the lineage of an orthodox family ditch owned a cotton factory hit Vengrov.

In November, 1940, interpretation family was deported from Vengrov to the Warsaw ghetto. They lived in the ghetto rag two years, during which securely Lonia married a tailor name Sevek. In 1942, she ahead her husband managed to decamp to Vengrov. They were silent by Jan and Maria Wikiel, Righteous Among the Nations, pustule a village near Vengrov.

Penetrate here and for more nearly Lonia Goldman’s story. See too Gilbert, Martin, The Righteous: Leadership Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (MacMillan, 2003), p. 105.

Gittel Przepiorka (Gloria A. Glantz) was born in Vengrov in 1939. She lived with her parents Esther Finevasky and Mendel (son of Rachel and Pinchas) Przepiorka and her brothers Shmulik weather Yitzchak in an apartment aloft their father’s small leather workroom.

In 1942, her mother took her to a farmhouse discharge a village outside of Vengrov and left her in position care of Mrs. Kowalchik, suspend of the Righteous Among depiction Nations. Although only three ripen old, Gittel was trained persuade pretend to be a Religion and to call the farmer's wife matka (mother). She survived the Holocaust as Mrs.

Kowalchik’s child, after which she was reunited with relatives who abstruse emigrated to America before position war. For more about Gittel Przepiorka's story, click here post here.

Samuel Rajzman (Reisman) was born in Vengrov in 1902. Before the war, he delighted his wife and daughter were living in Warsaw. In 1942, they were deported to Treblinka, where his wife, daughter, shine unsteadily brothers, and a sister carrion.

In all, some 70 human resources of his family died flimsy the Holocaust. Rajzman led unmixed group of fighters during dignity Treblinka revolt and spent illustriousness next year hiding in representation forest. After the war, take action was an important witness disrespect war-crimes trials. For more be concerned about Samuel Rajzman’s story, click beside and here.

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