Given name: Zygmunt Family name: Nissenbaum

  • YES
  • Male
  • Zygmunt
  • Nissenbaum
  • 1926
  • The youngest of all five brothers and sisters. His father ran a building enterprise. Before the war they lived in Praga, then in Grzybowska Street. After the changes in the ghetto's borders they moved to Miła Street. Only the oldest brother worked in Ursus, rest of the family didn't work. He was the youngest person, who got over the wall to get the food. Jewish cemetery in Brodno was his contact point. He was caught on the 'Aryan side' without the band in the middle of 1942, he landed at the Umschlagplatz and managed to escape. He got there for the second time at the beginning of 1943, when he was transporting weapons from the Brodno cemetery. Deported from Umschlagplatz with the dead bodies, thrown to the cemetery hole, he managed to escape and came back to the ghetto. He delivered weapon to the ghetto. He was hiding with his family in the attic. For the third time he landed in Umschlagplatz with the whole family in the time of suppression of the uprising. He was taken to Treblinka with his mother, father and brother at Passover in 1943. He lived through Majdanek, labour camps near Lublin, Wieliczka, working in Germany, Flossenburg. After the war he was in Konstanzy. President of the foundation. His whole family died in Treblinka

  • youth
  • Iwaszkiewicz, Joanna Wtedy kwily forsycje. Pamieci dzieci - ofiar Holocaustu (Forsythias Were then in Bloom. In Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust)

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