Given name: Icchak Family name: Giterman

Before the war, the head of the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) - in Russia - in Vilna from September 1939 - reached Sweden - the ship close to the shore stopped by Germans - all Polish citizens - detained as prisoners of war - sent back to Poland - in the second half of 1940; delivers a speech during the Winter Help (PZ) action; the chairman of Yizkor