us-005578-irn517233
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Mojżesz Michał Olczak (1907-1971) was born Mojżesz Rajzman on January 24, 1907 in Zamość, Poland to Gula Bajtel Rajzman (née Bajtel) and Zachariasz Rajzman. Mojżesz and his two sisters, Sabina (born 1912) and Osnas (born 1920) lived in Zamość, Poland. Their father, Zachariasz Rajzman, worked for his father-in-law, Urys Bajtel, in grain wholesale business. Sabina and Osnas Rajzman were publically hanged. Zacharias and Gula Rajzman also perished. Urys Bajtel (d. 1932) was a wealthy grain merchant. He had nine children: Fajga (born 1877); Gula (born 1878); Etla (born 1879); Rajzla (later Rajzla Hertzberg, b. 1880); Mindla (born 1883); Mojżesz (born 1890); Izak (born 1895); Haja (born 1905); and Sara (born 1906). Izak Bajtel immigrated to Palestine during the 1920s. Rajzla Bajtel Hertzberg survived the war in Kazakhstan, USSR. Fajga Bajtel and Etla Bajtel left Poland before the war. Urys Bajtel died in 1932. Five of his children: Gula, Mindla, Mojżesz, Haja and Sara perished with their families. Early in the spring of 1941 the Germans established an open ghetto around Hrubieszowska Street and the first deportation from Zamość, Poland took place on April 11, 1942 (on the eve of Passover). The entire Jewish population was ordered to gather in the city's market, whereupon gunfire was directed at the crowd killing hundreds on the spot. About 3,000 Jews were forced to board waiting trains, which took them to Belzec death camp. From May 1 to 3, 1942, about 2,100 Jews from Dortmund, Germany, and from Czechoslovakia were taken to Zamość. Almost all of them were deported to Belzec on May 27 and murdered. The third mass deportation started on Oct. 16, 1942. All Jews were again ordered to gather in the city's market, and afterward were driven to Izbica, some 15 1/2 mi. (25 km.) from Zamość. Many were shot on the way, and the rest, after a short stay in Izbica, were deported to Belzec and murdered. In this deportation the Jews offered passive resistance and hundreds went into hidin…
date: circa 1920-1955
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had subject: 701
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has record set type: Item
identifier: irn517233
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: The Olczak family collection is arranged in a single series.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The Olczak family collection consists of twenty-three black and white photographs and one photographic postcard depicting Ludwik Olczak's family in Zamość, Poland before World War II, and after the war in Bielawa, Poland and Israel.
title: Olczak family photograph collection