My mother Sheindel, the granddaughter of Hershel Fridman, a well-known estate owner in Maksymow near Przedborz, my brother Moishe, my sister Esther and her husband Yeshayahu Markowicz, perished in Treblinka.

My brother Hershel, 16 years old, was sent to Auschwitz and perished there. My sister Regina was shot in the cemetery in Radomsk. She was 8 months pregnant. My brother Shimon fought with the Red Army and fell in battle. He was an officer. My first husband Shmuel Rozensztajn died in Uzbekistan in Russia.

From the right, bottom:
Ester Markowicz, Yeshayahu Markowicz, Abraham Perlsztajn,
Regina Perlsztajn

May their memory be consecrated!

(Signed)

Sisters Chana and Gutshe Lutkewicz

The Reuven Liberman Family

My father had Zionist convictions and even in his youth aspired to make aliyah to Eretz-Yisroel. To this end he decided to learn a trade. He went to Lodz and studied tailoring. It was a “prestigious” occupation that was held by religious people.

After his marriage to Sarah, daughter of Henekh Alpert (The melamed of Przedborz who made aliyah in 1913), my parents moved to Radomsk to 14 Przedborzka Street, (The Oceckowski house) neighboring Moishe Lewkowicz, of blessed memory, one of the forerunners of the Zionist movement in our city. My father was a friend of Moishe Lewkowicz and was a member of the Zionist circle he founded. My father planned and intended to make aliyah a number of times (1913, 1921, 1924) but valid reasons stopped him from fulfilling his wishes.

The family moved to Lodz before the beginning of the Second World War. The Holocaust caught up with them there.

My brother Yakov did not want to leave our elderly parents and escape across the border. He died of typhoid fever in the Lodz Ghetto in 1942. My brother Yosef was a soldier in the Polish army when war broke out. He was captured by the Russians in 1939 and was in a POW camp up until the Szikorski-Stalin agreement. All traces of him were lost after liberation. My brother Moishe was sent from Lodz to a work camp in Germany, and never returned. My sister Rachel probably perished in Krakow. She was there at the time of the Nazis' invasion of Poland. My young brother and sister, Mindl and Berl were in Brussels before the war and were deported from there to the death camp.

My entire family were devoted and active Zionists; they were planning to make aliyah and build the country, but this lifelong wish was never to be.

Their memory will never waver.

(Signed)
Yehuda