- First name
- Dawid Chaim
- Last Name
- Dessau
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- 1898
- Place of birth
- Piotrków Trybunalski/Beuthen Bytom
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Hadassa Hudis
- Mother's maiden name
- Father's first name
- Mojsze
- Age
- 47/48
- In the family
- husband
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Gitla
- Occupation
- contractor
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Piotrków Trybunalski
- Street
- City during the war
- Piotrków Trybunalski
- Street during the war
- Notes
- He and his three older sons survived the ghetto and forced labour at a glassworks in Piotrków. All four were then transported to the Hasag ammunition factory in Częstochowa. Dawid died in 1945, shortly before liberation, during the evacuation of the Częstochowa camp. He was killed by a German soldier who hit him in the head with a rifle butt at the railway station as the Russians were approaching.
- Place of death
- Częstochowa
- Date of death
- 16.01.1945
- 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. 45389, rel. Saul Dessau (son), 48211, rel. Robert Dessau (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. Shlomo Desau
- Record ID
- 176451
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 30.04.2026
- Date of modification
- Photo description
- Dawid Dessau
- Source of photo (text)
- USC VHA 45389, rel. Saul Dessau
- Family
Maiden Name
