Given name: Chaim Family name: Szoszkies

Journalist, a worker for voluntary causes. Before the war he was the head of the Jewish cooperative movement. At the beginning of the occupation he was the member of the Judenrat and the close associate and friend of Czerniakow. In the beginning of 1940 he managed to escape from the occupied Poland on false documents. He left Warsaw after he got the order from Mende to organize in three days a brothel for German soldiers. Szoszkies could get Czerniakow and his family from Poland but Czerniakow rejected the offer. In February 1946 Szoszkies came to Warsaw and found Felicja Czerniakow.

Henryk Szoszkes left Poland in the fall of 1939: according to an article published in the New York Times on December 10, 1939, the day before he spoke with a NYT correspondent in Paris. According to an article from the "Vancouver Sun" published on December 26, 1939, Szoskes arrived then to New York [findings of Mr. Andrzej Mańkowski].