Given name: Bolesław Family name: Szpilberg

  • YES
  • Male
  • Bolesław
  • Szpilberg
  • 1923
  • Palestyna
  • Talented, from rich house. A student on drawing courses organized for teenagers by the Judenrat in 1941. As a British subject he had the responsibility to periodically report to Gestapo. For a large sum of money he bought Italian birth certificate, registered himself under his own surname but as a Italian citizen, he did not have to wear a band. As a British subject he had to register at the Gestapo in July 1942. He was probably on the list of the people intended for exchange for German POWs.

  • youth
  • The author does not explain how Bolek came back to his British citizenship.

  • Berg, Mary Dziennik z getta warszawskiego (Warsaw Ghetto Diary)

  • , s.85, 169