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First name
Szymszel Szymsia
Last Name
Jakubowicz
Maiden name
Date of birth
Place of birth
Gender
male
Mother's first name
Mother's maiden name
Father's first name
Age
no data
In the family
daughter in law sister's husband
Marital status
married
Spouse's first name
Occupation
Country
Poland
City
Częstochowa
Street
City during the war
Częstochowa
Street during the war
Notes
He was husband of Reizl Prepelicka's sister. [Transport Częstochowa-Treblinka started September 26, 1942] "[In Treblinka workers] they killed themselves. Hanged themselves with their... whatever they could get on them to strangle themselves. Even my brother-in-law did the same. He married a sister of my wife, a highly educated man. He was the leader of the Socialist Party - Bund in Poland. He was a leader from that. He hanged himself." "Before long, people in the ghetto were reading letters from Hersz-Mendel Wilinger and [Mojsze] Lubling, which they had sent over from Treblinka to Częstochowa via a Polish train conductor, regarding the suicide of their comrade and co-worker Szymszel Jakubowicz and the actual fate of all the Jews being sent to Treblinka. They urged us to do everything to make the world aware of what was happening there to the Jews." "He committed suicide in Treblinka on 30th September 1942."
Place of death
Treblinka
Date of death
30.09.1942
Source

USC VHA 18061, rel. Abraham Bomba (brother in law); USHMM RG-50.030.0033, rel. Avraham Bomba; L. Brener, "Resistance and Destruction in the Częstochowa Ghetto", s. 113; Czenstochov. A new Supplement to the Book "Czenstochover Yidn", s. 294

Record ID
29984
Date of inclusion in the database
30.01.2020
Date of modification
13.03.2026
Wall of Names
Szymszel JAKUBOWICZ, plaque C077
Photo description
Source of photo (text)
Family