Anna Philipstahl - Very special "adoption" of Frajda from Piotrków Trybunalski that became Fanny that became Rena.

 

Fredzia (Frajda) was sent in December 1944 to Ravensbrück or earlier in February- March 1943 to Czestochowa while her father, Lichtensztajn (Lichtenstein Icek) was sent on the same day to Buchenwald (or to Czestochowa too). Fredzia's school teacher took care of her during the transport to the camp (her name?). Her last Piotrków memories: She remembered seeing her mother and brothers for the last time, at around six years old (1942), when she slipped out of a Piotrków synagogue where Nazis had rounded up hundreds of Jews.  Fredzia remembered saying goodbye to her father when he entrusted her to a schoolteacher as they climbed out of a cattle car and women and children were sent one way (Ravensbrück), men another (Buchenwald).

In late October of 1938, the Nazi regime ordered the arrest of around 17,000 Jews with Polish citizenship who were living in the German Reich. The Jews were then expelled and transported violently to the Polish border. This forced expulsion designated the Polenaktion (“Polish Action”) in German, was the first mass deportation of Jews from the German Reich. Zbąszyń. In Poland, this action is also called the Zbaszyn Affair.

Before arrival in the United States Fredzia (Frajda), in Sweden got a new identity that belonged to Anna Philipstahl late daughter Frania. Anna that was officially stateless could not apply for a national passport as most of the former inmates of the concentration camps did. Most probably she used it in her applications for visa to USA and Swedish Främlingspass. It is likely that in Sweden no one noticed that Fredzia Lichtenstein, 10-year-old orphan from Piotrków Trybunalski disappeared.

In the police interrogation of Anna Philipstahl from December 13th, 1945, one can read: Her two children, a daughter, Fanny, and a son, Sigmund Philipstahl, now resided with her in a (camp) facility in Tingsryd. She does not know where her husband and eldest son are now. She hasn't heard from them since she escaped from the camp in Drohobycz. Her father died in 1928 and her mother in 1934. She intends to travel to America during the month of January 1946, where she has a brother, David Pine, who lives in Baltimore, which is why she wants to obtain a passport as soon as possible to travel to America, where she is also taking her two children.

For the first time, she learned her mother's maiden name,
Messer, and that she was named for her grandmother,
Frail. She also learned her real date of birth, which fell two months before the one she'd adopted. She found the address of her childhood home, and she went to visit the site. She
saw the balcony she remembered, and could picture
the kiosk across the street where she always got ice
cream. When Fredzia-Rena visited Piotrków she found at the doorpost of her former home, 

a faint outline of a tilted rectangle under many layers of paint--the mezuzah her parents had hung as a talisman and prayer to protect the home. Even before her visit,
Fredzia had recalled the moment in 1939 when strangers moved into her home. On her tour through Piotrków, she

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The document is dated May 19th, 1942. Just five months before the deportations to the death camp Treblinka started. Archiwum Państwowe w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim, ASC OB w Piotrkowie. Zesp. 333, Sygn. 13973.

Karrskär avgår 24/7 som sista resa stop Kastelholm beräknas avgå härifrån 25/7 med barnen

stop Enligt hittills erhållna uppgifter från Belsen anlända den 24/7 75 sjuka barn och cirka 95 friska barn tillsammans med 26 friska och 20 sjuka mödrar stop     sjuke mödrar stop Barons Aldo: stop Enligt hittilla erhållna uppgifter 95 friske barn tillsamans och sjukdomstillstånd finna ej

To Follow Holocaust Survivors and Holocaust Victims in Polish, German, British, Swedish, and Israeli lists. The same name of the Holocaust Survivor or Holocaust Victim might be found on several lists.

I choose Piotrków Trybunalski to show the process of the Holocaust that start as I define from September 1939, when WWII started. Why I choose Piotrkow Trybunalski is a question that I am frequently getting. Is your family from there? No, is my simple answer. However, the city, the ghetto population, and its fate are just a miniature of what happened in Poland at that time. A smaller population than in other ghettos made it easier to describe and follow single individuals' fate. 

Piotrków Trybunalski ghetto was the first one established by the Germans. Just 38 days after the invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939. The ghetto area was not fenced in, nor was it guarded. The ghetto’s perimeters were marked by signs bearing the word “Ghetto”, with a human skull and crossed bones above it. Jews were allowed to leave the ghetto without a permit, however, only during certain hours, and only to a certain part of the city. Until April 1942 the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto remained ‘open’.
In 1940, all the Jews of Piotrków over the age of 10 were required to wear a white armband on their sleeves with a blue Star of David. Those who failed to comply were severely punished, some people disobeyed this order, despite the danger. Men born between 1914, and 1923, were registered for forced labor by the Judenrat in March 1940.

It started in 1994 with my research of Holocaust Survivors that came to Sweden at the end of WWII. When analyzing the survivors on the very last of UNNRA White Boats that arrived in Sweden on 25-26 July, I was amazed by the number of children that arrived in Malmö. Later, I found that numerous on the ships list, both children and women were from Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto.

Following the fate of children from Piotrków one can find their names on several lists. On different lists, one can find what happened to their fathers and uncles and grandfathers and grandmothers.

Very quickly the history of the Holocaust will be revealed. Most of the grandfathers and grandmothers are not to be found on the lists after October 1942. 

On the night of October 13-14, 1942, the SS and Ukrainian auxiliary forces surrounded and sealed off the ghetto, and the Deportation Aktion to East started. The quota on the first day of deportation and also on the following days was 6 000 people. A train with 52 cattle cars was used for the deportation to the death camp. Trains departed from Piotrków to Treblinka four times and more than 20 000 Jews were deported. The distance between Piotrków and Treblinka is more than 250 km. That means a long journey in crowded cattle wagons to the death camp. The last transport to Treblinka left on October 25, 1942. It included some of the Jewish community leaders, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and others who belonged to the Judenrat, Jewish Council. During the deportation, approximately 1 000 Jews were shot (old and sick). No lists of deported were made! Germans just filled the cattle car trains to the maximum.

November 26, 1944, was the time for the next deportation. However, this time not to the extermination camps but to the HASAG factories in Czestochowa - the Pelzerei, Warta, Rakow, and Czestochowianka factories. Deportations in 1944 Generalna Gubernia were actually transports of very much needed slave workers that Nazi Germany needed more than ever as more and more Germans were recruited to the army and of course, Red Army was proceeding west. On July 22, 1944, soldiers of the Red Army came upon Majdanek, the first of the Nazi death camps to be liberated. They freed just under 500 prisoners. The total number of victims there was estimated at approximately 100 000.

On December 4th, 1944, the remnants of the Jewish population of Piotrkow were put into cattle wagons to be transported to two destinations, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück. This time all deported were strictly registered and also the age was given. The age of children was recorded by year of birth or just by writing 2 years or similar.

Buchenwald prisoners' lists were rather often updated. Here is the list with the creation date
1945-01-16 - 1945-01-22. The order of the information in the reports detailing changes slightly over the period of existence of the Concentration Camp. Here are the prisoner's number, name, and first name. Often the lists included of the times the reason for incarceration, block number or branch camp were included. Numerous names can be found in the deportation lists from Piotrków from December 2, 1944.
116.864 recorded in the lists.

Geszeft w Warszawie - Kamienie Pamięci, Stolpersteiny - Trywializacja Zagłady! - Deptanie po Żydowskich nazwiskach.

 

Rok 1944 - Równo 2 lata po Wielkiej Akcji w Getcie Warszawskim. Kościół Wszystkich Swietych i plac Grzybowski. W prawym, górnym rogu ulica Pańska. Widać cień dwóch wież kościoła który wskazuje na godzinę 12-ta. Dwie furmanki zakręcają z ul. Twardej na plac Grzybowski w kierunku ulicy Granicznej. Asterisk po prawej to Twarda 3, miejsce gdzie mieszkała moja babcia Helena i dziadek Gabriel z trzema córkami.

Nowy Geszeft w Warszawie - Kamienie Pamięci, Stolpersteiny. Wywieziono z Warszawskiego Getta 375 000 Żydów. Czy wybrukuje się teraz całą Warszawę czy też to tylko dla bogatych Żydów? Tutaj tylko jeden.

Geszeft w Warszawie - Kamienie Pamięci, Stolpersteiny. Wywieziono z Warszawskiego Getta 375 000 Żydów. Czy wybrukuje się teraz całą Warszawę czy też to tylko dla bogatych Żydów?

„Kamienie pamięci” to mosiężne kostki o boku długości ok. 10 cm. Umieszczane są w chodnikach, przed domami, w których mieszkały ofiary nazistów (Niemców).
To po prostu trywializacja Holocaustu i pozbawieniem go właściwej mu skali i ogromu.
Koszt kamienia (kilka lat temu) 120 Euro + hotel i przejazd dla Niemca.

Przykłady Trywializacji:

Dom moich Dziadków - Twarda 3
W Warszawie, w dobrej części żydowskiej dzielnicy na ul. Twardej 3 mieszkało 400 osób (dom był między ul. Twardą a Pańską). Z tego domu uratowały się 3 osoby. Dwie założyły rodziny. Urodziły się 4 osoby z tzw 2 generacji. Z nich 2 już zmarły, jedna nie chce mieć nic wspólnego z Pamięcią a jedna ewentualnie by coś zrobiła ale tylko dla dziadków bo dla 4 zamordowanych ciotek i 2 wujków będzie za drogo. Tak że z całego domu, z 400 osób tylko 2 osoby zostaną wspomniane czyli 0.5%. Nie piszę o innych domach na innych ulicach gdzie nie pozostał nikt!

Dom Sierot Janusza Korczaka - Sienna 16
W Warszawie, w dobrej części żydowskiej dzielnicy na ul. Siennej 16 mieszkało około 400 osób (239 dzieci). Z tego domu uratowały się w dniu deportacji 4 osoby. Czy będą one przywracać pamięć o 400 osobach, zamordowanych w Treblince 5 sierpnia 1942 roku? Chyba nie. Z tych 4 osób przeżył Zagładę tylko mój Tata.

Nie piszę o innych domach na innych ulicach gdzie nie pozostał nikt!

Gruzowcy - nie mylic z Gruzinkami

 Gruzowey mieszkali w tzw. melinach, ktore urzadzali sobie w nielicznych ocalal

ych lokalach.

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials in Stockholm and New York - Taliban work?

Years of the Covid Pandemic resulted in the death of numerous Holocaust survivors. Swedish press reported about it and also such a situation was described in the Jewish elderly homes in New York. Covid Pandemic actually sped up the death of Holocaust survivors as most of them left us during 2010-2020.

Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish newspaper reported on April 11th, 2020: The contagion silences the Holocaust's last witnesses. The wind is cold at Skogskyrkogården on this April day. Soon it will be time for another Jewish funeral. Then another one, the same day. And one more tomorrow. Last week, ten funerals took place here, nine were corona-related. At least half of those who died were Holocaust survivors.

The year 2020 marks 75 anniversary of the end of the Holocaust and also the UNRRA action White Boats that brought to Sweden thousands of Holocaust survivors, mainly from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Many of them lived just a few days or weeks after arrival in Sweden. Numerous Holocaust survivors died reaching just 50-60 years.

In Stockholm where I live, I initiated two different Holocaust Monuments. One at the Jewish synagogue and the second at the Northern cemetery. One is left...

The first was supposed to be ready in 1995, and the second one was ready in 2019 to mark the year 2020, the 75 anniversary of the end of the Holocaust and Jewish women, the Holocaust survivors that died after they were brought to Stockholm by the White Boat mission, starting July 1st, 1945. Survivors that become Holocaust victims. Most of them were the only survivors of the big families that were murdered in the death camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, Majdanek, and Belzec.

So what happened around 2020 in Stockholm and New York. Concerning the Jewish population, the new generation took over the leading position in Jewish Congregations.

New generations of Jews in Stockholm Congregation and Park Avenue Synagogue decided to remove Holocaust monuments.  

Why?

In the New York Jewish congregation, Park Avenue Synagogue performed the desecration of the Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue without permission from the donors. The monument was an artwork by Nathan Rapoport that was specially incorporated into the building from the very beginning, already when the Educational building was planned. Now, the only item that is left between the former top and middle panel (between 1 and 2) is the stone with one word in Hebrew - Remember. Of this action, Park Avenue Synagogue got three rooms with windows at Madison Avenue. Until recently, the monument, the tryphtyk including two sculptures in bronze and 16 stones with inscriptions could be seen above the Madison Avenue entrance to this beautiful synagogue, where according to rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue, "every Jew and non-Jew who comes into the orbit of this institution and what it represents – all of these are thundering statements that the values of Korczak, his children, those murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto and all the Six Million live on." These words were delivered in the sermon year 2013. The rabbi, Eliot J Cosgrove, continued: Tomorrow evening we will begin our observance of Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

 

Years of the Covid Pandemic resulted in the death of numerous Holocaust survivors. Swedish media reported about it and also such a situation was in the Jewish elderly homes in New York. Covid Pandemic actually sped up the death of Holocaust survivors as most of them left us during 2010-2020.

The very first Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue in New York dedicated to the Holocaust Children lasted just for 4 decades. Thereafter Raus!

The very first Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue in New York dedicated to the Holocaust Children lasted just for 4 decades. Thereafter Raus!

The very first Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue in New York dedicated to the Holocaust Children lasted just for 4 decades. Thereafter Raus!

Pocztówkowcy Małego Przeglądu Janusza Korczaka - Pocztówka Kwiatów i Pocztówka Owoców - Najmłodszy‎ i najstarszy ‎„Pocztówkowiec".‎ ‎

 

Mały Przegląd: pismo dzieci i młodzieży: tygodniowy dodatek bezpłatny do nr 285 "Naszego Przeglądu" R.8, nr 41 (13 października 1933).

Zaproszenie do kina z 19 grudnia 1930, do Cyrku z 29 stycznia 1932.

Pocztówkowcy* - Pocztówka kwiatów i Pocztówka owoców.

Specjalne pocztówki pamiątkowe były jednocześnie wejściówkami na seanse filmowe kub na inne atrakcje jak wstęp do cyrku. By nie zjawiło się za dużo osób były ogłaszane na pierwszej stronie Małego Przeglądu seanse dla "współpracowników" posiadaczy widokówek z owocami i oddzielnie dla posiadaczy widokówek z kwiatami.

Bilety Prasowe do Cyrku Staniszewskich.
Każdy pocztówkowiec, o ile się nie spóźni, otrzyma dwa bilety: jeden dla siebie, drugi dla osoby przez niego zaproszonej. Bilety na cztery różne występy były tym razem tylko dla posiadaczy widokówek z owocami.

*Igor Newerly w swoich wspomnieniach używa słowa pocztówkarze.

Kino Apollo, Marszałkowska, założone w 1913 r. przez krawca i handlarza starzyzną Mojżesza Lejmana.

Najmłodszy‎ i najstarszy ‎„Pocztówkowiec".‎ ‎Mały Przegląd: pismo dzieci i młodzieży: tygodniowy dodatek bezpłatny do nr 285 "Naszego Przeglądu" R.8, nr 41 (13 października 1933)

Najmłodszy „pocztówkowiec" ma lat 5. najstarszy 55. Są to Miecio z Miłej i Dr. Janusz Korczak. Miecio otrzymał pocztówkę za 18 listów, dyktowanych siostrze, — dr. Janusz Korczak za 1 „list" bardzo długi p.t. „Kajtuś Czarodziej". W ten sposób mamy także jednego współpracownika dorosłego. W tym roku, coraz pierwszy również, do grona zasłużonych współpracowników wszedł uczeń, polak: Tadeusz B—ski.

Pocztówka nie jest nagrodą, a pamiątką, wspomnieniem. Jedne dzieci zgubią ją na drodze życia, inne - zachowają na długo - pisał Korczak o pocztówkach pamiątkowych. Istniały i w Domu Sierot i w Naszym Domu i w Małym Przeglądzie. Na fotografi "Pocztówka z owocami", specjalnie drukowana dla Małego Przeglądu. Adresowana przez Janusza Korczaka do Edwina Markuze. W mieszkani rodziny Markuze na ulicy Niecałej 16 odbywały się często spotkania redakcyjne.

„Mały Przegląd” Janusza Korczaka to właściwie gazeta szomrowska.

Rysunek szomera prowadzacego grupe młodziezy był na pierwszej stronie ostatniego numeru Małego Przeglądu z 1 września 1939. R. 14, nr 35, dodatku bezpłatnego do nr 244 "Naszego Przeglądu"

 

Rysunek szomera prowadzacego grupe młodziezy był na pierwszej stronie ostatniego numeru Małego Przeglądu z 1 września 1939. R. 14, nr 35, dodatku bezpłatnego do nr 244 "Naszego Przeglądu". Nie było zadnej informacji o wojnie, natomiast na stronie 3 był długi artykuł "Na Kolonii Szomrowej".

Rysunek szomera prowadzacego grupe młodziezy był na pierwszej stronie ostatniego numeru Małego Przeglądu z 1 września 1939. R. 14, nr 35, dodatku bezpłatnego do nr 244 "Naszego Przeglądu". Nie było zadnej informacji o wojnie, natomiast na stronie 3 był długi artykuł podpisany Noemi, "Na Kolonii Szomrowej".