us-005578-irn512812
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biographical history: Josef Grotte (born Feliks (Felek) Roman) was born in Czestochowa. Poland on August 11, 1923 to Abram and Leja Biber Roman. His older brother, Leon Roman, was born in 1916 and his younger sister, Rita, was born in 1929. The Roman family resided on 8 I-st Aleja in Czestochowa. Abram Roman owned a bus line serving the route from Czestochowa to Praszka, on the German-Polish border. In 1935 the Roman family moved to Sosnowiec as a result of economic difficulties relating to their business. They joined Abram’s paternal uncle, Boris Roman. They lived on 6 Raclawicka Street in Sosnowiec. After about a year Abram found employment as a manager of the Haftke sawmill in Wozniki in the Silesia region. After a year they returned to Sosnowiec. Leon Roman served in the Polish Army and he was wounded during the German invasion of Poland. Felek fled eastward and reached Nowy Ksiadz, where he was caught by the Germans, but he managed to escape and returned to Sosnowiec. Felek was active in the Polish Socialist party and through his contacts and help from a school friend Bronislaw Sliwa he obtained his documents, which included an identification card and a membership card for the labor unions. Felek’s high school teacher, Mr. Konrad Potyka, accompanied him to Warsaw in December 1939. Mr. Potyka later perished in Auschwitz. In Warsaw, Felek lived for a few months with the Gutkowski family in the Czerniakow district of town. At the end of 1940, Felek married Maria Gwarek. They married in Anin, near Warsaw, in a church. At the same time Felek met Mr. Aleksy Bien, who served as mayor of Sosnowiec before the war and was a member of the Polish Sejm on behalf of the Polish Socialist Party. He arranged for Felek to work for the underground organization WRN (Wolnosc, Rownosc, Niepodleglosc – Freedom, Equality and Independence) in a unit, which produced false papers. At that time Felek’s false name was Jozef Domagala. His brother, Leon Roman was imprisoned in the Checiny ghetto together with his…
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identifier: irn512812
record resource extent: folder 1
title: Josef Grotte photograph collection
scope and content: The photographs consist of images of Josef Grotte and his family before and during the Holocaust.
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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