Given name: Maria Family name: Geszychter

  • NO
  • Female
  • Maria
  • Geszychter
  • 1901-00-00
  • Warszawa
  • Yes
  • From Warsaw
  • Jewish
  • other, in an apartment

  • Echiel and Ruchla's (née Halpern) daughter; born in Warsaw in 1901; had a daughter Hania; lived in Warsaw at Dzielna Street No. 31 until 1939; after the ghetto was formed, she and her family were thrown out of the house at Dzielna Street No. 31 and moved to Muranowska Street to her brother-in-law's - Geszychter, a dentist; before the ghetto was closed she left for Opole Lubelskie with her family - she lived there until the final liquidation of Jews in the Opole ghetto; her husband was a druggist, when he lived in Opole he conveyed herbs from Warsaw, made tea of them and made a living by selling it, was killed by a peasant battalion; when she came back to Warsaw she hid at Zlota Street No. 56 at two Poles' for a few days and then went to Wola-Grzybowska, where she lived at Maria Marks' - two Jews (Misza Geldblum and Jakub Rajchman) were hiding in her room in an embedded closet; in 1943 she found shelter at Jan Potrzebowski's at Sniadeckich Street No. 12 - she was placed in Mrs Stefa's house in a basement and registered as 'Aryan'; after the Warsaw Uprising everyone who lived in the city centre (Srodmiescie) district were deported to Pruszkow, from there they were sent to Mauthausen and then to Rawensbruck, where Maria stayed for several months. Later they were sent to Drezno to work in an armaments factory.

  • Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Uprising, in the Ghetto, deportation
  • Germans operations, Poles operations, help
  • children, other help, contacts with other Jews , long-lasting help, housing assistence
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