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The author of the drawing used as the logo for
the commemorations, which represents a silhouette of the Church
of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – the tallest building
on the terrain of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto – and the bridge on
Zgierska, is Abraham Koplowicz. He was born on 18 February 1930
in Łódź, the only child of Mendel and Yochet Gittel Koplowicz.
Taken from the ghetto along with his parents on the last transport
to Auschwitz, he perished in the gas chamber in September 1944.

In 1983 Mendel Koplowicz, the only survivor of the entire family,
died in Israel. Among the documents he left, Eliezer Grynfeld
(Abraham's half brother) found several memorabilia, including
a school exercise book with a hand-drawn illustration on the cover
along with the title "Litzmannstadt-Ghetto 1943" and the words:
A. KOPLOWICZ "HIS OWN WORKS". Eliezer Grynfeld began
to publish the texts found. A selection of Koplowicz's verses was
produced in Polish, Hebrew and French. The poem entitled
"Dream", in which the boy writes about the future "when he
is twenty years old", was translated into over a dozen languages.
The original copy of Abraham Koplowicz's exercise book is to be
found at the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem.

Our thanks to Mr Eliezer Grynfeld for providing the illustration and
family photographs.

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