Given name: Estera Family name: Pinaj

  • YES
  • Female
  • Estera
  • Pinaj
  • 1896-00-00
  • 1942

  • From 1914 to 1941 she brought up thousands of orphans, she devoted whole her life to them. In 1939 she went with children to the ghetto. In 1942 she went with children to cremation.

  • Daughter of a wealthy owner of several houses in Warsaw. Miss Pinaj collected refugee's children loitering in Warsaw. That's how the 'Children Protection' ('Ochrona Dziecka') Association was created; its president was Anatol Weksztein. The woman devoted whole her live to orphans. She was a strangely altruistic person, Anatol Weksztein never met anybody like her later on. Sometimes she was short-tempered and she beat children, because it was hard to stand them.

  • 302/204 Anatol Weksztejn, born 24 January 1874 in Lowicz, son of Michal and Maria, nee Wodzisławska, no title. The story of the author's family (pioneers of assimilation). The author's youth, school years in Kharkov, work in the ceramic industry. World War I in Lowicz and Warsaw in the Society to Help the Jewish War Victims. Internment in Germany. The inter-war period - general reflections on Zionism and baptism of Jews. The economic situation of inter-war Poland, the role of Jews in Polish economy. The author's escape to Lutsk during the Polish-German War of 1939 and his return to Warsaw. Situation in the Warsaw ghetto, criticism of the Jewish Police (Order Service). His stay on the 'Aryan side', help from friendly Poles, frequent changes of shelters. Liberation, return to Lowicz. The author was an industrialist, owner of ceramic factories in Lowicz and Boryszew, and a co-owner of artificial silk factory in Sochaczew. Typescript, pages 1-204,format: 290 x 210 mm, in Polish.
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