Given name: Gierszon Family name: Sierota (6)

  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) YES
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Male
  • (1) Gierszon , (2) Gerszon , (3) Gerszon , (4) Gerszon , (5) Gerszon , (6) Gerszon
  • (1) Sierota , (2) Sirota , (3) Sirota , (4) Sirota , (5) Sirota , (6) Sirota
  • (5) May 1943, (6) 1943
  • (6) Warszawa
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) No information
  • (1)

    former senior cantor of the Great Synagogue, prayers during Samuel Gancwajch's bar mitzvah, thanks from the parents

    (2)

    Before the war he was the cantor of the synagogue at Tlomackie Street. Just before the outbreak of the war he returned from the United States. During the First Action he got to Hallman's shop.

    (3)

    Senior cantor of the Warsaw synagogue, he appears at the concert; prayers in the synagogue during Rosh Hashanah in 1941, at Sukkoth in 1941 - pride of the district; at the oratorium concert on 19 October 1941; service in the Nozyk synagogue - on 13 December 1941 and on 20 December 1941.

    (4)

    A cantor- died during the uprising at Wolynska Street No.6- the house burnt down

    (5)

    During the uprising his family was in a bunker at Wolynska Street No. 6. They had a chicken for seder. He died burnt down in a shelter during the uprising and his wife died of natural causes a month earlier.

    (6)

    a famous cantor in the Great Synagogue at Tlomackie

    • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) artists/writers
  • (2)

    Schmidt, Leokadia; Cudem przezylismy czas zagłady (We Miraculously Survived the Holocaust)

    (5)

    Prajs-Fajgenbaum, Miriam; Testimony, Yad Vashem Archives

  • (1) nr 49/3, (2) s. 150, (3) II55/3, 59/3, 85 og,91/3,97/2, 107/3 122/2, (4) 136,201, (6) 65