Given name: Dawid Family name: Dąbrowski

  • YES
  • Male
  • Dawid
  • Dąbrowski
  • 1942
  • in August during the great action
  • Treblinka

  • A pedagogue. Berl's (Icchak Kacenelson's brother) brother-in-law. Before the war was the head of a Hebrew school in Lodz, founded by Icchak Kacenelson. During the occupation - director of an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. Fronted his foster children during the great action in August 1942 at the Umschlagplatz, from where he was deported to Treblinka.

  • teachers, civil servants

  • Zivia (Cywia) Lubetkin's memoirs. Record of the testimony from the occupation period of one of the most outstanding figures of Jewish resistance movement and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After coming to Palestine after the war, she wanted to preserve the memory of the events she took part in; she told people in kibbutzim how the Holocaust looked like, what people from her circle did, with no chance to succeed, to prevent it. The description of the Uprising is the main and the most shocking part of the memoirs. They are generally considered one of the most important sources of the uprising's history.

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