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Jehoszua Szyja Joszua Kirszenbaum

First name
Jehoszua Szyja Joszua
Last Name
Kirszenbaum
Maiden name
Date of birth
1891/1895
Place of birth
Radom/Skierniewice/Radzymin
Gender
male
Mother's first name
Pnina
Mother's maiden name
Father's first name
Mosze Dawid
Age
45/51
In the family
son in law
Marital status
married
Spouse's first name
Gołda Jehudit Goldberg
Occupation
rabbi, ritual slaughterer
Country
Poland
City
Otwock
Street
Reymonta 35
City during the war
Otwock
Street during the war
Staszica
Notes
On August 18th 1942, when my father returned from prayers, he called the family together. He had learned that the Nazis were going to "resettle" us to somewhere new. He determined that my mother and brother Mordchai would go to the resettlement, but my three sisters and I should make every attempt to save ourselves on the Polish side with friends. "Your mother and I have fulfilled our commandments to God. We've married, had children, taught our children well. You haven't had the chance to fulfill God's commandments. It is not your time to come with us, and we will only hamper your survival. You must save yourselves. Go, leave the ghetto now." He gave us each instructions on where we were to go and gave us merchandise from our store to take as form of payment.
Place of death
Treblinka
Date of death
19.08.1942
Source

YVP Dorothy Greenstein (daughter), Melkhia (daughter); Akta IPN Sygn. S 9.2013.Zn, t. 105 s. 21978 (discontinuation of the investigation into the liquidation of the Otwock ghetto, 20.10.2014); J. B. Burns, "March of the living", s. 135; USC VHA rel. Dorothy Greenstein (daughter); Central Name Index, 0.1/53003343/ITS Digital Archive, Arolsen Archives

Record ID
32821
Date of inclusion in the database
30.11.2020
Date of modification
03.04.2026
Photo description
Source of photo (text)
Family