Given name: Maurycy Family name: Orzech (8)
- (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) YES
- (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) Male
- (1) Maurycy , (3) Maurycy , (4) Maurycy , (5) Maurycy , (6) M , (7) Maurycy , (8) Maurycy
- (1) Orzech , (2) Orzech , (3) Orzech , (4) Orzech , (5) Orzech , (6) Orzech , (7) Orzech , (8) Orzech
- (1) Pan Nus
- (5) 1891 (P.Sz.), (8) 1891
- (5) 1943 (P.Sz.) or 1942, (8) 1943
- (5) Warszawa
- (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) No information
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(1)
a Bund activist, an Uruguayan citizen
(2)he has allegedly produced Aryan papers and lives uneventfully in his flat (late 1940)
(3)a Bund member. He left for Hungary in February 1943.
(4)As a representative of the Bund, he was a member of the Social Council of the JOINT ([American] Jewish Distribution Committee) in the Warsaw Ghetto. He came from a wealthy, religious family. In 1907, as a young man, he already belonged to the Bund. He became one of its active leaders, journalist and publicist. In the ghetto, he was one of the editors of the Bund underground press. During the First Action, he crossed to the 'Aryan side'. He tried to go abroad, but he was caught by the Gestapo and shot in August 1943.
(5)Journalist, activist of Jewish and Polish trade unions. Member of Bund Central Committee. In July 1942, left the ghetto and in 1942 tried to escape abroad. Arrested in Kolomyja, transported to Warsaw, murdered in August 1942. According to other sources, he died in unexplained circumstances in 1942.
(6)On a ship with Giterman - an economist, Bund activist
(7)a Bund activist
(8)a Bund activist, publicist, editor of the party magazines. Thanks to English embassy's help, he managed to leave on a neutral ship for Sweden. The ship was stopped by a German fleet unit and Orzech, with a few more activists, was arrested. He was put in jail in Berlin and from there transported to the Warsaw ghetto (April 1940). He was active in the underground there. Murdered by Gestapo in August 1943 (at the same time, his wife, Janina, and daughter died).
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(1)
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s work was edited and translated into English by Jacob Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958 under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'Journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum
(8)
Czerniakow, Adam; Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)