Given name: Szymon Family name: Kraus

Completed metal school in Stawki Street in Warsaw in 1939, and in 1941, he started to work on the Jewish cemetery, he interred the deceased in the mass graves. His father, mother, sister and two brothers died in Treblinka. He was a messenger between the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) - he transported delivered weapon through the cemetery, took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; conveyed by the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) to the Wyszkow forests; active in guerilla fights, wounded in November 1943, hid by a peasant, joined I Armia Wojska Polskiego (First Armed Force of Polish Army); demobilised in 1946, returned to Warsaw and worked on the Jewish cemetery to 1950; later, as a watchmaker; got married in 1956, one child; author of testimony 301-5551.