Given name: Nachum Family name: Remba (8)

  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) YES
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) Male
  • (1) Nachum , (2) N , (3) Nachum , (5) Ignacy , (8) Nachum
  • (1) Remba , (2) Remba , (3) Remba , (4) Remba , (5) Remba , (6) Remba , (7) Remba , (8) Remba
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) No information
  • (1)

    A Zionist activist in the Warsaw ghetto. During the great Action, risking his own life, he tried to free his clerk friends and Jewish children from the Umschlagplatz. He was captured later on by Germans and was murdered in one of the camps in the Lublin region.

    (2)

    Deputy secretary general, delivers a eulogy

    (3)

    A Judenrat worker, member of the General Zionists organization. He rescued people from the Umschlagplatz, among others the children from the orphanage at Twarda Street No. 27. '(...) He turned out to be an extremely brave man, he saved a lot of people with his smartness and dedication.' Dressed in a white doctor's coat and with the use of a bribe, he convinced the Germans, that children are very much needed to sew uniforms in a shop.' He took Edwin Weis from the Umschlagplatz.

    (4)

    Judenrat secretary; at the beginning of the uprising he hides together with his wife in a bunker, which was under the hospital in Gesia Street; on 8 May 1943 he goes with the last transport to Poniatowo or to Majdanek.

    (5)

    A worker of the Schools Department and the Secretariat of the Judenrat.

    (6)

    He worked for the Judenrat - he rescued people from the Umschlag with dedication. A very good and a very helpful man. A clerk ('szrajber') in block 22 in Majdanek - he helped Rotbalsam.

    (7)

    He substituted Horenstein as head of the General Secretariat of the Judenrat. His past is unknown. After 22 July 1942 he worked in an hospital ambulance, near the entrance to the Umschlagplatz.

    (8)

    Secretary of the Judenrat - people called him the 'conscience of the Judenrat'. One of the 36 Righteous among the Nations; honest, he fought for justice, heroic until his tragic death; he was a member of YIKOR (the Jewish Cultural Organization).

    • (1) activists
    • (2, 3, 6) civil servants
    • (4) the rich
    • (5) Judenrat, civil servants
    • (7, 8) Judenrat
  • (4)

    The same person is mentioned, among others, in testimony 301-5061

  • (3)

    Rufeisen-Schuepper, Helena; Pozegnanie Milej 18. Wspomnienia laczniczki Zydowskiej Organizacji Bojowej (A Farewell in Mila Street No. 18. Memoirs of a Messenger of the Jewish Fighting Organisation)

    (4)

    Efros, testimony 301-2816

    (5)

    Czerniakow, Adam; Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

    (6)

    Rotbalsam, Izrael; Testimony, Yad Vashem Archives

    (7)

    Adler, Stanislaw

  • (1) 215, (2) 118/2, (3) 42; 49, (5) 200, (8) 56,153, 206, 210