I remember some of the names

257 A reunion of graduates of Elementary School No. 49 at 9 Brzeska Street, Warsaw, 1936. "It was a regular state-run elementary school in the Praga district, although only Jewish children attended. The teachers - all Jews, except for the drawing teacher, had higher education, but could not find positions in the Polish gymnasia. Our teacher Ida Askenazy knew Sanskrit and French. One of my classmates is holding "Three Salutes" by Stande - a leftist book, which was popular among us.
In the first row from the top, standing from left, are: 5. - Mietek Albrecht, 6. - Don, 7. - Zosia Szmelcyngier (she left for France before the War, where she owned a sweater factory), 8. - Mendelson, 10. - Orlinska (the one with the white collar), 11. - Izaak Wajsbrot, our Polish language teacher, 12. - Renia Stalik (I met her in 1941 in Bialystok, starving, with a child at her breast), 13. - Sznajderman (he survived the war), 14. - Jadwiga Polkowska, 15. - Maria Frydman (lives in Warsaw), 16. - Kotlarz (he survived the war in Spain, died in Israel), 17. - Don, 20. - Hornblas, 21. - Losicer, 22. - Komar (the only one of the class who forced her way through the Jewish quota was accepted into university and graduated in Polish studies just before the war, only to perish soon after in the ghetto), 23. - Bronka Zuraw.
In the second row from the top: 1. - Fela Szerman, 2. - our teacher Birnbaum, the one with the scarf, 3. - Szczepanska, 4. - Kosower, 6. - Giertych, 7. - Witelson, 8. - Cecyha Komar, 9.- Zuraw, 10. - Bronek SzuIc, 11. - Sabina Komorowska, 12. our teacher Ewa Opoczynska.
Third row: 1. - Sonia Zilbersztajn (a Polish worker hid her, she now lives in Israel), 2. - Irena Fels, a Polish language teacher, 3. - Wachenchauer, 4. - Wikelson, 5. - Majman, 6. - Elbaum, 7. - Miss Leontyna Kempner, the school principal, 8. - our mathematics teacher, Bronislawa Jeszoron-Rakowska, 10. - our home-room teacher, Anna Goldfal-Wygodzka, 11. - the school doctor Winawer, 12. - Bronka Dombrowner.
Sitting on the floor: 1. - Fridman, 2. - Lutka Szerman (she was in a Russian camp, died in Israel), 3. Balbina Szulc (also survived in the Soviet Union, and went to Israel), 4. - Gina Fajgenbaum - that's me, 5. - Herszon, 6. - Szpajzman, 7. - Basia SzuIc, 8. - another of the Fridman sisters, 11. - Irena Raisking, 12. - Irena's husband, Horensztajn (lying on the left). Marek Bober (lying on the right) married Basia SzuIc and they had two sons. When I met him in 1941 in Bialystok, he told me -You have a Polish husband, don't burden yourself with Jews.- He decided to return to Warsaw, to the ghetto. He was a real Praga guy, positive that somehow he would be alright. He himself was killed, but he managed to save one of his sons, who later became a professor in America." As told by Eugenia Gnoinska of Warsaw

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