- First name
- Chaim
- Last Name
- Grosman
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- Place of birth
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Chana
- Mother's maiden name
- Rajnsztajn
- Father's first name
- Beniamin
- Age
- no data
- In the family
- son
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Occupation
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Warsaw
- Street
- Niska 59
- City during the war
- Warsaw
- Street during the war
- Wołyńska
- Notes
- In the autumn of 1942, when Chaim and his brother Majer were not at home, their mother, Chaim's wife and his 1-5-year-old child were taken away on a transport. When the brothers returned from work, Chaim decided that they too had to go to the camp, because the women would not be able to cope on their own. They reported to the Umschlagplatz. They arrived in Treblinka, where they learned that it was not a labour camp. During the selection, he and his brother were chosen to sort clothes. At the end of the day, they hid, along with 16 other Jews, in a wagon where they were loading packages of clothes, nine people at each window. During the journey, they searched through the clothes and found money and valuables sewn into them. Three kilometres from Łuków, they jumped out of the train, throwing out the parcels of clothes for the Poles waiting below. They reached Gołaszyn, where peasants hid them in exchange for money. After two or three weeks, the peasants, who belonged to the Peasant Battalions, organised transport for them to Warsaw. They returned to the ghetto. Both took part in the ghetto uprising and separated during the evacuation through the sewers. Chaim went to the "Aryan side", but according to reports, he later died there because he lost his shoes (another Jew took them from him at gunpoint) and was unable to continue his escape or hide.
- Place of death
- Warsaw
- Date of death
- 1943
- 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. 30198, rel. Majer Grosman (brother)
- Record ID
- 61108
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 17.02.2026
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