1. Bressler — residing at Jana Kazimierza Street before the war.
2. Szapira Szachne — Sienkiewicza Street. He was arrested before the
great roundup several days after the German troops’ entry. A few days
after his imprisonment, Szapira was seen on the street escorted by soldiers.
He was changed beyond recognition, haggard, ragged and dirty.
3. Szapira Szyja — brother of the above, arrested several days after
him. Both Szapira brothers were very wealthy.
4. Szapira Joir — the third brother and his son were killed by a bomb
during military operations in Ożarów, and buried in a makeshift
cemetery there. In spring 1940, their bodies were exhumed
and transferred to a Pruszków cemetery. Szachne Szapiro’s wife
remained in Bydgoszcz with their daughter. After some time, she
was resettled to Lublin, where she died.
5. Wołkowicz Aron — Marsz[ałka] Focha Street.
6. Dr Chaskiel¹²⁹⁷ — at first, right after the German troops’ entry, he
worked for them as a doctor. Later, he was taken to a camp. His wife
and their three children remained in Bydgoszcz and were resettled
to another street, where they lived until the last Jewish souls were
resettled, i.e. January 1941. Currently, she is in Warsaw. She received
a message, of rather dubious value, from her husband, whom someone
had allegedly seen in the camp.
7. Liebermanowa — Old Market.
8. The Gerson family — father Piotr¹²⁹⁸ and two sons: Józiek and Arek.
After the German troops’ entry, they were arrested on accusation
in 1928 — 1,480, 1930 — 1,644, and in 1939 — 2,057 (1.44% of the population). Under the German occupation, a group of Jews from Bydgoszcz was sent to the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, and some to the Warsaw ghetto; both groups perished in Treblinka. Between 1941 and 1943, Jews from Gdańsk were held in the prison in Bydgoszcz, and in 1944, ca. 250 Jews from Poland, Hungary, Austria, Romania, and France were imprisoned in the Gestapo investigative facility at Wały Jagiellońskie. Resettled Bydgoszcz residents died in Auschwitz, Dachau, and Stutthof.
1297 Maks Chaskiel, elected chairman of the board of the Jewish Community in 1925, son-in-law of Robert Aron, owner of the Bydgoszcz Plant of Asphalt Roofing [Bydgoska Fabryka Papy Dachowej] at Jagiellońska Street 44. After Aron’s death (date unknown) Chaskiel managed the plant until its collapse in 1936.
1298 Piotr Gerson owned three clothes shops and the hardware shop at Dworcowa Street 35. He was shot during a public execution on 10 September at the Old Market Square.
