Given name: Celina Family name: Gitler (3)

  • (1, 2, 3) YES
  • (1, 2, 3) Female
  • (1) Celina , (2) Celina , (3) Celina
  • (1) Gitler , (2) Gitler , (3) Gitler
  • (3) Józefowa Gitler
  • (1, 2, 3) No information
  • (1)

    A qualified housemistress working in the Centos (the Central Organization for Orphan Care). On 7 September she left Warsaw together with her husband and child. They go east. They went back to Warsaw. After the Second Action they managed to get to the 'Aryan side'. Later they were sent to Bergen-Belsen. She survived the war

    (2)

    The head of the orphanage at Dzika Street No. 3 which was established after the First Action (October 1942) for the children who were left after the action on the Umschlagplatz and then released. The orphanage was there until December. In February 1943, she crossed to the 'Aryan side' together with her husband and daughter (born in 1932). She was hiding with her family in Wilenska Street and in Grajewska Street. In July 1943, after their hideout had been burnt, they went to the Hotel Polski, from where they were transported to Bergen-Belsen. They survived the war.

    (3)

    Jozef Gitler's wife. Survived the war in the concentration camp for foreigners in Bergen-Belsen.

    • (1) activists
    • (2) activists, care / social welfare
    • (3) around the author
  • (2)

    For a more detailed biography, see Jozef Gitler-Barski's biography.

  • (2)

    Barski, Jozef; Przezycia i wspomnienia z lat okupacji (Experiences and Memoirs of the Occupation)

  • (1) 102, (2) [s., 40], (3) 32, 53, 269