Given name: Hela Family name: Grynsztajn

  • YES
  • Female
  • Hela
  • Grynsztajn
  • Herszberg
  • 1922
  • 1943/44
  • Bydgoszcz
  • Oświęcim
  • No
  • Jewish
  • Her parents were deported to Treblinka after the selection in Mila Street. She worked in a furrier's shop and lived at Nowolipie Street No. 30. She married Chilek Birenbaum in the autumn of 1942. During the uprising she hid in the bunker at Mila Street No. 3. In May 1943 she was deported with her husband and the Birenbaums family to Majdanek. then imprisoned in Auchwitz. She died of natural causes, due to an overall exhaustion.

  • in the ghetto
  • private life / daily life
  • hideout, around the author