Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld was a native of Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), and a survivor of the Holocaust. He escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to Romania where he lived under the assumed identity of a non-Jewish man. He immigrated to Palestine at the end of World War II.
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Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld memoirs
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Consists of a copy of an article written by Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld concerning his family history and experiences during the Holocaust. The article includes detailed information on the dispersal of Maltiel-Gerstenfeld's relatives who eventually perished in the Lvov ghetto, his activities as a Zionist youth, his life in Romania under an assumed identity, and his emigration to Palestine at the end of World War II.