- First name
- Josef Reuven Josek Rywon
- Last Name
- Lichtenstein Lichtensztajn
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- 1878
- Place of birth
- Łódź
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Rivka
- Mother's maiden name
- Father's first name
- Szmuel
- Age
- 64
- In the family
- husband
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Gitel
- Occupation
- industrialist
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Starachowice Wierzbnik
- Street
- City during the war
- Starachowice Wierzbnik
- Street during the war
- Notes
- Josef Reuwen Lichtensztajn and his wife were shot in the marketplace during the formation of the transport. Josef was blind; he asked his wife to tie a white napkin with a loaf of bread around his neck in order to signal his condition. The Germans shot both of them directly at the assembly point. "Later we learned that 42 people — old and sick, who could not or would not go to the Market Square and remained in their homes — were murdered in cold blood. Among them were my wife’s grandfather, Reb Josef Reuven Lichtenstein, and his wife Gitel."
- Place of death
- Starachowice Wierzbnik (during deportation to Treblinka)/Starachowice Wierzbnik
- Date of death
- 27.10.1942
- Source
"Sefer Wierzbnik-Starachowice", rel. Jerahmiel Singer, s. 178; 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. Simkha Mintzberg, Renia Freeman (granddaughter); AP KielceState Archive in Kielce, containing documents of local and regional courts pertaining to cases of declaring death in absentia, inheritance and others. Year, reference number, document number. 3285 Sąd Grodzki w Starachowicach-Wierzbniku, sygn. 1267 (Zg 23/46); 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. 11745, rel. Renia Frymerman (granddaughter)
- Record ID
- 42648
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 15.02.2023
- Date of modification
- 26.05.2026
- Wall of Names
- Josef Ruwen LICHTENSZTAJN, 64, plaque D023
- Photo description
- Source of photo (text)
- Family
Maiden Name