us-005578-irn73123
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Stanislaw Staszek (Shlomo) Aronson is the son of Waldemar Aronson and Helena Kaffeman. He was born in Warsaw, Poland on May 6, 1925. The couple married in 1919 and their older child, daughter Janina Janka was born on May 6, 1921. The Aronson family was a well off Warsaw Jewish family with close ties to the Lodz textile business. All four of Staszek's grandparents were observant Jews, but none of their children adhered to the rules of Judaism. Both the Aronson and the Kaffeman families celebrated all the Jewish holidays out of respect for their older generation. The Aronson family lived in the building, which belonged to Abram and Fryda Aronson, but in 1931 they moved to Lodz, where Staszek's father conducted most of his business. They settled on a one floor of the house, which belonged to Jakub and Sara Kaffeman, Helena Aronson's parents, at Zeromskiego Street in Lodz. Two of Helena's brothers: Leon and Beno lived there as well. About the same time Abram Aronson moved to Tel Aviv in Palestine and two of his sons and one daughter. One daughter: Relka Warszawska, Mieczyslaw and Rafal Aronson and of course Waldemar Aronson with his family remained in Poland. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland and the Aronson family started on their journey eastwards, first to Warsaw and then to Rowno, where they spent a few months contemplating what to do next. They finally reached Lvov. Staszek started to attend school. The Aronson family managed to avoid deportation to the east by the Soviets. In June 1941 Germany invaded USSR and reached Lvov in early July. Helena's parents fled Lodz to Warsaw and wrote to their daughter to return to Warsaw. In the fall of 1941 Staszek, his parents, and sister were smuggled out of Lvov and into the Warsaw ghetto. Staszek found employment in"Astr" adding machines factory in the ghetto, but in July 1942 he lost this position. He and his father started to work in a labor gang outside the ghetto, which was a back-breaking work with minimal food…
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scope and content: Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Aronson and Kaffeman family in Warsaw and Łódź before the war.
title: Stanislaw Aronson papers