Given name: A.B. Family name: Ekerman (18)

(1)

a Judenrat member chairman of Religious Supervision Subsection [of the Judenrat] in the Commission of Religious Affairs; speech 1 April 1942 at rabbi Gutszechter's funeral

(2)

the Judenrat councillor; responsible for borders; before the war Motyl's director; his son - the head of the Department for Payments toward the Hospital Service; Tyszka: the Department of Social Welfare, Judenrat member

(3)

A messenger of the Berson and Bauman hospital, spring 1940

(4)

Agudat councillor, served on the Religious Affairs Commission and Cemetery Commission

(5)

an engineer; he lived at Rynkowa Street No. 1; he was the president of the House Committee there; he worked in Centos and the Commission for Deportation Affairs, and the Section for Refugees of the Judenrat; later in the brushmakers' shop as purchasing deputy head of the shop, in Treblinka, Majdanek, Skarzysko and Czestochowa camps; after the war in Lodz; his two sisters deported to Treblinka during the First Action.

(6)

One of the commanders of the uprising in the ghetto. He commanded five Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) units in the brush factory area: in Franciszkanska and Wolowska Street. He was the Bund representative in the ZOB command. He hid on the 'Aryan side' together with Cywia Lubetkin, Rivka Rozenstein, Bernard Goldstein, among others. He participated in the meeting at Mila Street No. 5 in October 1942. When the 'actions' started, he provided his friends with documents. When he left the ghetto, after the uprising's failure, he hid for some time with Welwel Rozowski: they were blackmailed by two Poles. Welwel died, trying to get the ransom. He hid with other fighters also at Leszno Street No. 18.

(7)

A commander of five groups fighting at the brushmakers’ shop, author of testimony 301-5002

(8)

Judenrat member. 16 December 1941 together with Wiener he examined battered bodies, which had been found at Panska Street No. 15.

(9)

A rabbi, Judenrat member; had seven children. He was imprisoned by the Germans as a hostage. He came back with no beard or teeth.

(10)

A rabbi, a hostage at Pawiak; young Ekerman's father, religious affairs at the Judenrat

(11)

in the bunker at Promyka Street

(12)

One of the leaders of the uprising in the ghetto. A Bund activist, a member of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) command; in the Warsaw Uprising he fought in the ranks of the ZOB. The author of a report on the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. A cardiologist.

(13)

He survived the war; took part in the uprising in the ghetto; Bund member, commander of so-called 'brushmakers' shop area' in Swietojerska Street and Wolowa Street

(14)

Judenrat member

(15)

An engineer. 10 May 1943 led out by Germans after discovering the bunker on the brushmakers' premises.

(16)

Bund, worked in the Berson and Bauman hospital, active in organising performances for children

(17)

A Judenrat member; a Jewish orthodox representative

(18)

a councilor

(2)

rabbi Ekerman's son; light-hearted figure

(6)

He witnessed Michal Klepfisz's death.

(10)

He was old but felt young. Shaking grey beard, eyes of a child. Other testimonies: Iop2YV033/2010, 166

(2)

Motyl, Symcha Binem wspomnienia W Archiwum Yad Vashem W Archiwum ZIH (memoirs, Yad Vashem Archives, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw)

(5)

Efrosrelacja 301-2816 (testimony 301-2816)

(7)

Edelman, Marek, testimony 301-5002

(8)

Documents from Ringelblum's Archive, part I

(10)

Gladsztern, Jakub, testimony

(11)

Sylkiewicz, Kazimierz Jozef Relacja W Archiwum Yad Vashem (Testimony, Yad Vashem Archives)

(1) 113/3, III 29/2, 42/2, (3) 22,42,57,58,75,76, (4) , cz.2 str.85, (6) 94,137,178,187,201,235,289, (8) 338, (9) 53,92,132, (11) 212, (12) 59, 297, (13) s.282, (14) 49, 204, (15) 19, (16) 189, (17) 272, (18) I, 197