Brothers - And I Still See Their Faces

There were seven children
Brothers

169 On the left, Abraham Lejb Fuks, a physician and Zionist activist from Wloclawek. On the right, an unknown man.

170 The Fiedler brothers from Brzozw.

171 Three friends: Roman Ostapiak - a Ukrainian; Eustachy Schneider - a German; Dawid (Emil) Schechter - a Jew, born on December 25, 1900 in the village of Kamionka Strumilowa near Lvov. Lvov, late 1920s.

172 Dawid Malec and his son Rafal, Grodno, 1930s.

173 The Slonka brothers, Warsaw, the interwar period.

174 "Mojsie and Lejbus Adler. They were killed by Ukrainians in Nowy Most." Jef Rogowski, Brzozw

175 On the right, Jakub Zew Litman, a teacher and rabbi from Kalisz; on the left - an unknown man.

"Maksymilian Kapelusz (the one with an armband) was detained by the Soviets as a physician mobilized by the Austrian army during World War I. He practiced his profession in Siberia as well. Maksymilian came from a family of traders from Brody. He studied in Vienna. He was a well-known and respected gynaecologist in Brody and vicinity. He died in 1935 from a heart attack."
His niece

177 Maksymilian Kapelusz and his colleague detained by the Soviets in Irkutsk, 1918. On the reverse, there is Maksymilian's letter written in German to his brother Johann, detained in another camp.

176 Names unknown. Print from a glass plate found in Zdunska Wola.

178 The Szajnert brothers in Donbas, 1944. From left: Symcha Binem, Izaak Chaim (the youngest, born in 1916, now lives in Ldz), and Jakub Montka. They were mining anthracite. After their return home, they did not find their family - their mother had died of typhoid fever in the ghetto, their sister Chana was killed in Treblinka.

179 "In the photo I am with a Russian named Zorka in the Budionny kolkhoz in Uzbekistan. It is 1943. In Uzbekistan, I didn't encounter antisemitism. They didn't know what a Jew was there. "I lived on a kolkhoz in the steppes, where I saw a Russian newspaper twice a year. I learned about the concentration camps in 1945, in Moscow, on my way back to Poland. "A Polish family was living in our flat in Grodno. One of our neighbors, a Russian, saved a trunk in which I found some family photos, my Gutenberg Encyclopaedia and books from the The Library of Nobel Prize Winners series, and some towels. All the relatives, who had remained in Poland, were killed in Majdanek." As told by Rafal Malec of Warsaw

180 The village of Nova Yegorevka in the Altay Region in Siberia, November 1941. From left: Marian Feldman; a Polish woman of unknown surname; Marian's father Ignacy; his cousin Bronislaw Rozenfeld; Marian's sister Janina with her daughter Krysia. They returned to Poland: Marian in 1944 with the army, his father came back the latest, as he had been sent to the Gulag for trying to find food for his family. Their mother, Ryfka Feldman, who had been left behind in Warsaw, died.

181 Jacek Goldman and his sister Wanda. Krakw, 1924. "My mother Wanda Meloch (nee Goldman) was killed in Bialystok after the Germans invaded in the summer of 1941. Jacek left the Warsaw Ghetto to join the partisans and nobody ever heard from him again. I received this photograph from my family in New York." Katarzyna Meloch, Warszawa

182 Print from a glass plate, made by a photographer who used to ride by wagon from village to village around Dobromil in Galicia (now in Ukraine). The photograph is most probably from the 1920s; it had been wrapped up with a page from a 1923 calendar.