Given name: Adlof Family name: Weisblat

  • YES
  • Male
  • Adlof
  • Weisblat
  • August 1942
  • Warszawa
  • An engineer; before the war - juror at the municipality of Warsaw; the President of the Society for the School of Nursing Support in the Jewish Hospital; when the ghetto was closed the 85-year-old was evicted from the flat in Chocimska Street No. 30 together with his bedridden wife and sick son; his wife was transported to the School of Nursing where she died in February 1941; on 6 August 1942, during the liquidation of the small ghetto, together with the School of Nursing he was in the crowd of 40 000 people gathered in the Grzybowski Square, Luba Blum-Bielicka tried to rescue him, but the old man was bitten and went with others to the Umschlagplatz.

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  • Blum-Bielicka, Luba Szkola Pielegniarstwa przy Szpitalu Starozakonnych w Warszawie (1923-1943). Wspomnienia (School of Nursing of the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw (1923-1943). Memoirs)