Given name: Beniek Family name: Fryligsztejn

he was born and lived in Warsaw, father was a bagmaker; Beniek went to elementary school; during September air-raids their flat was seriously damaged; Beniek had a younger sister and two brothers, 18- and 12-year-old, who went to work on a work detail; father made bags a little and he traded in sweets; after creation of the Jewish district the family's situation deteriorated a lot; one of the brothers enrolled to a camp and left; mother died of starvation, father a few days later; the House Committee took care of the orphans, it placed the children in the half-boarding house at Nowolipki Street No. 25