Given name: Chilek Family name: Grynsztajn

  • YES
  • Male
  • Chilek
  • Grynsztajn
  • 1923
  • 1944 (?)
  • Majdanek
  • No
  • From Warsaw
  • Jewish
  • secondary
  • He attended a craft training school in Warsaw, in September 1939 he lived with his parents and siblings in Nowiniarska Street. He moved with his family to Muranowska Street No. 7, flat 9. He lived there until 1941. An active member of Haszomer Hacair. He moved to Nalewki Street No. 23. In August 1942 he was caught during an action and sent to the Umschlag, which he managed to return from. He lived at Leszno Street No. 64, in a house for the workers of Toebbens' shop. During the First Action he was employed to collect corpse in the Umschlagplatz. In the summer of 1942 he was employed in a 'Ursus' factory near Warsaw. In the autumn of 1942 he married Hela. He moved to her flat at Nowolipie Street No. 30. During the uprising he hid in a bunker at Mila Street No. 3. In May 1943 deported to Majdanek. Next he was deported to Auschwitz Birkenau. He died in a gas chamber.

  • in the ghetto, deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • youth, around the author, deportation
  • He wore glasses (very thick lenses)