Given name: Henryk Family name: Szoskies (5)

(1)

journalist, a worker for voluntary causes. Before the war he was the head of the co-operative movement.

(2)

Member of the delegation which, on 5 November 1939, managed to persuade the Germans to alleviate the edict about creating the ghetto. Until his death he was the editor of 'The Day-Jewish Journal' written in Yiddish and published in New York.

(3)

A member of the Judenrat, a director of Cooperative Bank

(4)

a journalist; a member of the first Judenrat, an author of memoirs ("Blater fun a getto togbuch", New York 1944)

(5)

Journalist, a worker for voluntary causes. Before the war he was the head of the Jewish cooperative movement. At the beginning of the occupation he was the member of the Judenrat and the close associate and friend of Czerniakow. In the beginning of 1940 he managed to escape from the occupied Poland on false documents. He left Warsaw after he got the order from Mende to organize in three days a brothel for German soldiers. Szoszkies could get Czerniakow and his family from Poland but Czerniakow rejected the offer. In February 1946 Szoszkies came to Warsaw and found Felicja Czerniakow.

(5)

Henryk Szoszkes left Poland in the fall of 1939: according to an article published in the New York Times on December 10, 1939, the day before he spoke with a NYT correspondent in Paris. According to an article from the "Vancouver Sun" published on December 26, 1939, Szoskes arrived then to New York [findings of Mr. Andrzej Mańkowski].

(1)

Hartglas, Apolinary; Na pograniczu dwoch swiatow, ed, J. Zyndul (In between Two Worlds)

(2)

Kaplan, Chaim Aron; Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary, transl. from Hebrew and ed. by A. I. Katsh

(5)

Czerniakow, Adam; Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

(2) 47,48, (3) 49, (4) 79-81, (5) 57; 361-362