Testimony 301-3582, Jewish Historical Institute Archives

  • Irena
  • Kurz
  • account/testimony
  • no
  • no
  • Polish
  • Twenty-two pages, interesting due to dramatic experiences at the Umschlagplatz during the I Action, but there are many generalities.

  • Related people:

    • Kuper Unknown

      A family from Lodz, the parents and three adult daughters, worked at the brushmakers' shop during the First Action.

    • Kurz Irena

      No occupation, in the ghetto she lived at Leszno Street No. 6, rescued with her husband and their 6-year-old daughte...

    • Szyf Unknown

      shot on the Umschlagplatz when he came to save his housemistress

    • Goldfeder Unknown

      Banker from Lodz, on the Umschlagplatz he had one dream - to escape, to commit suicide and to die as a human being

    • Rokman Unknown

      An engineer, he died in the Polski Hotel, during the First Action he kept order in the school at the Umschlag.

    • Regisberg Unknown

      He often came to the ghetto as an 'Aryan', he mediated in fixing up hideouts on the 'Polish side'.

    • Faktor Unknown

      about 22 years old, left the ghetto before the uprising, he was hiding in Warsaw, died in the Hotel Polski

    • Maniłow Unknown

      He lived in Leszno Street, probably at No. 6, he came to the Umschlagplatz to save the Kurz family - the First Action

    • Cyganiewicz Zbyszko

      a pre-war Warsaw boxer; an SS-man; he conducted a selection during a round-up

    • Zilbersztajn Sabina

      left the ghetto before the uprising, she was hiding in Warsaw, died in the Hotel Polski

    Related places:

    • Leszno 6

      Irena Kurz lived there - before the July Action