Given name: Unknown Family name: Fleiszman

  • YES
  • Male
  • Fleiszman
  • the end of April 1943
  • Warszawa

  • the Jewish Police officer; captain, head of Region III and next Region II of the Jewish Police; he became known in the ghetto as a great jobsworth and blackmailer ('szmalcownik'); he took part in the first day of the action 19 April 1943; he was wounded, got to the small ghetto, he was bandaged; the crowd mocked him and carriers even wanted to beat him; he died in Prosta Street a few days later

  • Jewish police

  • Warm, Ber; fragments of testimonies in: Michal Grynberg, Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, transl. Philip Boehm, Picador, New York, 2003.

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