Given name: Józef syn Family name: Weksztein

He graduated from the Rej school. After the return to Poland he took over the sales of Boryszew brickyard production in Warsaw.

He wanted to become a writer. He established a paper with his colleagues: Berson, Fajans and Wieczorkiewicz under the title 'Quin quns'. After several months they traveled to different places in the world. Jozef went to Belgium, later to Berlin for industrial training. He returned to Poland with a Germanized Pole. The woman with whom he married secretly was not accepted by Anatol. They lived with the Weksztein's at Nowogrodzka Street. Until 1939 he lived at the corner of Wilcza/ Emilii Plater Streets. He was not in the ghetto; he hid in different houses. After splitting up with his wife he lived at Wilcza Street with an artist - Pawlowska. He was arrested at the streets of Warsaw and deported to Treblinka. Miraculously he managed to escape from there. Without a hat he got to the property near Pulawy where there was a summer resort for inhabitants of Warsaw. Despite of the fact that the owner of the property knew Jozef, as he had been there with his wife, she did not agree for him to stay there because his suspicious appearance. He returned to Warsaw, but he had no shelter there. He went to his acquaintances in Podkowa Lesna. He had documents for the name Kowalski.