#zaw-1:

Jakob Szwarc and Frymet Schwartz
with children Joseph Schwartz; Dovid Szwarc; Pinchas Szwarc; Mendel Szwarc; Yisroel Szwarc; Leibel Szwarc; Yehoshua Szwarc; Itta Szwarc and Tovia Szwarc almost the entire family perished in the holocaust. Son Joseph survived

#zaw-2:

A page from a German photo album from Zawiercie.

Donor

Glowna Komisja do Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich/Niemieckich w Polsce [Chief Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite/German Crimes in Poland]

Period
 
During World War II

Date of event
 
26/03/1941

#zaw-3:

1941 
A column of Jews from the Zawiercie ghetto, assembled for deportation to forced labor in Germany.

#zaw-4:

Jews whom the Germans had chased from a synagogue in Zawiercie during the High Holy Days, wrapped in prayer shawls. Photographed in 1943.

#zaw-5:

Sarah nee Rakower and Shmuel Helberg 
Birth: of  Shmuel
1870
Zawiercie, Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Death:
1954
Ra'Anana,

#zaw-6:

Avraham Helberg was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1892 to Sarah Rakower and Shmuel Helberg. He was an industrialist. Prior to WWII he lived in Antwerpen, Belgium.

Avraham was murdered in the Shoah.The report is by his children Sabina ad Yosef survivors of the holocaust.

#zaw-7:

Jews whom the Germans had chased from a synagogue in Zawiercie during the High Holy Days, wrapped in prayer shawls. Photographed in 1943.

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