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Gitla Barszczewska

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Gitla Barszczewska

First name:

Gitla

Last Name:

Barszczewska

Maiden name or alternative names:

z domu Upfal

Date of birth:

1901

Place of birth:

Węgrów

Date of death:

30-06-1988

Place od death:

Paryż

Age:

Biography:

Gitla Barszczewska (1901-1988), born in Węgrów, wife of Idel (Ydel) Barszczewski (born 14 May 1905 in Wołomin, died 1979 in Nice; AdP AD Paris 13e No. 1934 of 1979), journalist and communist activist who used the surname Korman in France. They married in 1926 in Poland. They remained separated after the Second World War. Their marriage produced a daughter, Madeleine (born 2 August 1933 in Paris).

During the occupation, Gitla lived in Paris with a resistance participant, Chaja Wajsman. In 1943, she was arrested in Wajsman's flat and deported from the Drancy camp on 21 July that year in convoy 58 to Auschwitz, where she arrived on 2 August 1943. She was then transferred to the Malchow camp, where she survived until liberation. She returned to Paris on 19 May 1945. Her husband was also deported.

Publication:

08.09.2025

Last updated:

08.09.2025

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