- First name
- Abraham Chaim
- Last Name
- Topas
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- 14.11.1904
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Sura Ita
- Mother's maiden name
- Father's first name
- Izaak Jakub
- Age
- 38
- In the family
- son in law
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Genia
- Occupation
- businessman
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Warsaw
- Street
- Leszno 28
- City during the war
- Warsaw
- Street during the war
- Leszno 28
- Notes
- He worked as a manager in his father Izaak Jakub Topas’s family shoe company. The business was one of the best-known companies manufacturing and selling footwear in Poland. In the ghetto he chaired the self-help committee for the residents of his tenement building. To support the family, he also organised an illegal bakery with former employees, operating in one of the flats in the building. Abraham was taken to Treblinka together with his elder son Szymon while his son George (Jurek) was in a Luftwaffe labour camp. After returning, Jerzy found his father’s bed unmade and an open book — Heinrich Graetz’s "History of the Jews" — with the page still marked where his father had been reading shortly before he was taken away.
- Place of death
- Treblinka/Warsaw
- Date of death
- 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. 40322, rel. George Topas (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. George Topas
- Record ID
- 115258
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 26.05.2026
- Date of modification
- Photo description
- Abraham Topas
- Source of photo (text)
- USC VHA 40322, rel. George Topas
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