Given name: Maurycy Family name: Orzech

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  • Male
  • Maurycy
  • Orzech
  • 1891
  • 1943

  • 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).

  • activists

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

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