- First name
- Szlomo Tzvi
- Last Name
- Rotbard
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- 1896
- Place of birth
- Przybyszew/Łódź/Białobrzegi
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Necha Pesia
- Mother's maiden name
- Father's first name
- Meir Jechiel
- Age
- 46
- In the family
- son
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Bracha
- Occupation
- tailor
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Łódź
- Street
- City during the war
- Łódź/Kraków, Tarnów, Białobrzegi, Mogielnica
- Street during the war
- ghetto
- Notes
- Szlomo ran a successful tailoring workshop that employed twelve workers and operated eight sewing machines. He also served as a cantor (chazzan) in the synagogue and led prayers. Well known in the local community, he practiced cupping therapy (used to treat colds and pneumonia) and performed rituals believed to remove the evil eye. On December 13, 1939, the family was expelled from Łódź. They passed through several towns and ghettos — Kraków, Tarnów, Białobrzegi, and Mogielnica. In July 1942, Szlomo’s son Jakow was taken for forced labour on the construction of power lines. He returned home only on Sundays. In November 1942, after a day when the workers were not brought back, Szlomo learned from Polish labourers that all the Jews from Mogielnica had been taken away. Shortly afterward, Szlomo and his wife Bracha, together with their three children — Doba, Raizel, and Meir Jechiel — were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp, where they perished.
- Place of death
- Treblinka
- Date of death
- September 1942
- Source
USC VHAVisual History Archive - USC Shoah Foundation collects oral testimonies of Holocaust survivors. The Visual History Archiveis USC Shoah Foundation’s online portal that allows users to search through and view more than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Testimony number and the relationship of the witness and the deceased (if known) are provided. 42922, rel. Yaaḳov Roṭbard (son); YVPYad Vashem Archive – Page of Testimony. Information on Holocaust victims are collected in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names in the form of answers to a survey. Apart from the abbreviation (YVP) we usually provide the relationship of the person filling in the survey the victim. (724210, 1708296)
- Record ID
- 162897
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 15.03.2023
- Date of modification
- 28.10.2025
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