Given name: Genia Family name: Silkes (3)

  • (1, 2, 3) YES
  • (1, 2, 3) Female
  • (1) Genia , (2) Gienia , (3) Eugenia
  • (1) Silkes , (2) Silkes , (3) Sylkes
  • (1, 2) Sylkes, (3) Silkes, Genia
  • (1, 2) No information, (3) From Warsaw
    • (3) Jewish
  • (1)

    Teacher and form tutor in the Warsaw ghetto. Connected with the Centos (the Central Organisation for Orphan Care). Survived.

    (2)

    Before the war she was a teacher. In the Warsaw ghetto, she managed a kitchen (canteen) for children, at Nowolipki Street No. 35. She did her pedagogic work there.

    (3)

    She was a member of the underground of the Warsaw ghetto. She jumped out of the train going to Treblinka. She had good appearance but she could not speak Polish. She survived the war.

    • (1) pedagogues
    • (2) Intelligentsia
    • (3) activists
  • (1) 151, (2) s.69, (3) 80