us-005578-irn516534
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Lolek Eliezer Grynfeld was born on October 18, 1923 in Łódź, Poland to Abram Mosze Grynfeld and Chaja Hela Rozental Grynfeld. His parents divorced when Lolek was a young boy. Lolek and his mother lived with the Rozental family - eight people in a three room apartment - on 4 Nowomiejska Street. Lolek’s mother worked in a department store as the manager of the shoe department. Lolek’s maternal grandparents were orthodox Jews and tried to instill religion in Lolek but without much success. At the age of 14, Lolek graduated from elementary school and started to attend a gymnasium for working youth. In the mornings, he worked at a store and later in a printing house. At the beginning of the wars, he witnessed a German policeman entering the apartment of his friends, the Cytryn family. The policeman terrorized the three Crtryn children who were along in the apartment. The policeman demanded money and valuables, and cut off one of the side locks of the little boy as well as one of the braids of Salusia Cytryn. In April 1940, Lolek, his mother, and grandparents were moved into the Łódź ghetto. Both grandparents, Abram and Rojza Rozental, died in the ghetto. In the ghetto, Lolek worked as a mailman at the ghetto post office, and his mother in a paper workshop. Later, Lolek got a job at the main hospital in the ghetto where he was responsible for coordinating the internal correspondence of all the hospitals in the ghetto. He later worked as a receptionist at the hospital. Lolek received additional portions of soup in the hospital which enabled him to give his regular rations to his mother. Lolek became ill with jaundice and was hospitalized during the first day of an aktion which targeted the hospitals. He registered as a patient, but was afraid that the Germans would come looking for him. Lolek entered the hospital on 37 Lagiewnicka and tore out the page of the hospital register with his name. Later that week, he wore his white coat and stood together with his mother during …
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record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: The Grynfeld and Grynglas families' papers is arranged in a single series.
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scope and content: The papers consist of a registration form "Anmeldun") and eight photographs 2 of which are adhered to documents that contain text relating to the experiences of the Grynfeld-Grynglas familes in Łódź, Poland, and the displaced persons camp in Leipheim, Germany.
title: Grynfeld and Grynglas families' papers