Person · survivor and shoemaker
Sholem Garfinkel
Sholem Garfinkel
Young man who rescued the narrator from deportation and worked as a shoemaker.
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... There I encountered many Jewish women. Sholem
Garfinkel worked in the camp as a shoemaker. After
nine months, Sholem was taken to other concentration
camps, after which he was liberated early in May 1945.
I moved from Blyzhin to Auschwitz and then to other
camps. I was freed in April 1945. ...Source passage 2
Source OCR · scan 466
... My husband, Sholem Garfinkel, and I endured much
suffering during the terrible Nazi occupation of Poland.
Our shared misery began in the Bialystok ghetto, where
we were imprisoned with our families. My husband
came there with his family from Trestina at the end of
1941, when the Nazis began expelling and liquidating
the Jews in the small surrounding towns. His family
consisted of about one hundred people. After the war,
however, he remained the sole survivor. His father,
Szymon Garfinkel, who was forty-three, joined the
heroic resistance in the Bialystok ghetto. The Nazis shot
him along with other freedom fighters. As for my large
family, only I, an older sister, and a cousin remain. ...Connected nodes
Place
Blyzin labor camp
Worked At
Event
Deportation train journey
Participated In · Participant
Place
Białystok Ghetto
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Place
Lapy
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Place
Treblinka
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Place
Majdanek
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Place
Blyzin labor camp
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Auschwitz
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Salzburg
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Place
Plainview, Long Island
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Place
Brooklyn, New York
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Person
Carol
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Person
Steven
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Person
Marlene
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Person
Fannie Bojarski-Garfinkel
Spouse Of
Person
Szymon Garfinkel
Parent Of
Place
Białystok Ghetto
Lived At
Place
Białystok Ghetto
Migrated To
Event
Sholem Garfinkel’s family came to the Bialystok ghetto
Participated In · Subject
Event
Destruction of the Bialystok ghetto
Participated In · Survivor
Event
Fannie Garfinkel disguised herself as a man
Participated In · Participant
Person
Fannie Bojarski-Garfinkel
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Person
Szymon Garfinkel
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Place
Trestina
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Place
Pietrasze Field
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Place
Central Park
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Empire State Building
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Worked At
Sholem Garfinkel → Blyzin labor camp
Sholem Garfinkel worked in the camp as a shoemaker
- role:
- shoemaker
Associated events
Deportation
Deportation train journey
The narrator was forced onto a train carrying prisoners toward Treblinka and Majdanek.
Migration · 1941
Sholem Garfinkel’s family came to the Bialystok ghetto
Sholem came with his family from Trestina at the end of 1941.
Aktion Or Raid · 1943
Destruction of the Bialystok ghetto
The Bialystok ghetto was destroyed in summer 1943, beginning severe danger for Fannie and Sholem.
Deportation
Fannie Garfinkel disguised herself as a man
She wore Sholem’s clothing to join young men while women and children were deported.