Given name: Mieczysław Family name: Wekstein

  • YES
  • Male
  • Mieczysław
  • Wekstein
  • 1937
  • Warszawa

  • Graduated from the Rej Gymnasium (junior high school) being 17 years old. Left for Nancy after the graduation. When he was 20 years old he got an MA in engineering. After his return to the country he became the director of a factory in Lowicz, was an excellent chemist.

  • children, communication, youth, medicine

  • Anatol and Helena's younger son. Not out-going, stingy, did not take interest in women. Played the piano beautifully. Inherited a flat from his grandparents. Was a dreamer and an unrealistic person. In 1937 he fell ill in Lowicz, the doctors could not help him. Came to Warsaw, where he had a surgery on his ulcer, but it was too late for treatment - as a result he died. Buried in Lowicz, about 20.000 people bade him farewell.

  • 302/204 Anatol Weksztejn, born 24 January 1874 in Lowicz, son of Michal and Maria, nee Wodzisławska, no title. The story of the author's family (pioneers of assimilation). The author's youth, school years in Kharkov, work in the ceramic industry. World War I in Lowicz and Warsaw in the Society to Help the Jewish War Victims. Internment in Germany. The inter-war period - general reflections on Zionism and baptism of Jews. The economic situation of inter-war Poland, the role of Jews in Polish economy. The author's escape to Lutsk during the Polish-German War of 1939 and his return to Warsaw. Situation in the Warsaw ghetto, criticism of the Jewish Police (Order Service). His stay on the 'Aryan side', help from friendly Poles, frequent changes of shelters. Liberation, return to Lowicz. The author was an industrialist, owner of ceramic factories in Lowicz and Boryszew, and a co-owner of artificial silk factory in Sochaczew. Typescript, pages 1-204, format: 290 x 210 mm, in Polish. <b>Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute </b>
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