- First name
- Mair Mordechaj Majer
- Last Name
- Krym
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- 1888
- Place of birth
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Mother's maiden name
- Father's first name
- Age
- 54
- In the family
- husband
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Sara
- Occupation
- administrator
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Warszawa
- Street
- Czerniakowska 9
- City during the war
- Warszawa
- Street during the war
- Świętojerska/Gęsia 30
- Notes
- He was a man of two professions: on the one hand, he was the administrator of a large residential building, meticulously keeping records and registering tenants with the police; on the other hand, he was a cantor whose passion was composing and performing liturgical music. During the selection in the ghetto, all the residents of their building were lined up for deportation. His father told Leon to show his work ID to the German officer. Leon was working at a brush factory at the time, producing for the German army. The officer looked at him, scanned him from head to toe, and barked, "Raus!" (Get out!). Leon ran back to the empty apartment. On the stove, he saw the potatoes his mother had left unpeeled – the last trace of his family. His parents, his sister Luba, and his younger brother Jankiel were taken to Umschlagplatz, and from there, he guessed, straight to the gas chambers in Treblinka.
- Place of death
- Treblinka
- Date of death
- July 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. 32524, rel. Leon Krym (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. Leon Krym
- Record ID
- 158288
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 15.03.2023
- Date of modification
- 13.01.2026
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