- First name
- Jakow Jakub
- Last Name
- Rotkel
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- 1877
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Szeindl
- Mother's maiden name
- Father's first name
- Daniel
- Age
- 65/66
- In the family
- husband
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Roda Ruda
- Occupation
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Łódź
- Street
- City during the war
- Warsaw
- Street during the war
- Krochmalna 32, Miła 18
- Notes
- He was a trader and entrepreneur in the fur industry. He ran a thriving business, buying skins and manufacturing fur products. Jakub Rotkel died tragically in April 1943 during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, jumping from the third floor of a burning tenement house where his family was hiding.
- Place of death
- Warsaw
- Date of death
- 1943
- Source
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. Elimelekh Rotkel (son); 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. 32239, rel. Majlech Rotkel (son)
- Record ID
- 27663
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 30.11.2018
- Date of modification
- 16.02.2026
- Photo description
- Jakow Rotkel with his wife Roda
- Source of photo (text)
- Yad Vashem
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