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throughout the period of the ghetto’s existence. Lutek became involved with
the leftist movement and became a member of a secret anti-fascist youth
organization. When the liquidation of the ghetto began in the summer of
1944, the mother was the first of the family members to be detained and
deported to Auschwitz Birkenau, leaving from Radegast station. Shortly
after her deportation, Lutek’s father and two younger brothers were taken
away. Szymon was twelve and Jakub was ten; they probably went to the gas
chambers right away.
Lucjan Dobroszycki found himself in one of the last August transports to
Auschwitz together with a group of friends from the organization who stuck
together. Among them were Stefan Krakowski (Szmul Erlich), Sewek Wilner,
Henryk (Hersz) Doktorczyk, Marian Turski (Mojsze Turbowicz) and Henryk
“Rysiek” Podlaski. They went through the same camps: Dziedzice Czechowice,
Buchenwald, Terezin. Podlaski died of exhaustion in April 1945 during the
evacuation of the Buchenwald camp, the others survived the war.
Only a few members of the large Dobroszycki family survived. Of all the
mother’s siblings, only one sister Pola and her daughter Edzia survived the
ghetto and camps. After the war, they left for Israel. Two daughters of Szajna,
Rywka and Bronia, also survived. However, Gitla’s brothers: Majer, Chaim and
sisters: Roza, Miriam and Szajna died.
Of the father’s siblings, three of his sisters: Ester, Rywa and Lea were mur-
dered during the war. Of the many children, Lutek’s cousins, only two sons of
Aunt Lea, Szymon and Lipman Rosengarten, survived the war. Fiszel’s elder
brother, Samuel Dobroszycki, left Poland for the USA in the 1920s. He died
in New York in 1970.
After the war, Lucjan returned to his home town of Łódź. He studied history at
the University of Łódź and, as a young communist, he was sent to Leningrad
on a government scholarship. On his return, he started working at the Institute
of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 1957, he married
Felicja Herszkowicz from Łódź.
Felicja was born on 30 May 1935 in Łódź. Her parents, Mordechaj Herszkowicz
(1912-1988) and Miriam née Zyngier (1910-2012), survived the war in the Soviet
Union. Her father, who had been called up in September 1939, found himself
in Lviv after the break-up of the Polish army. Felicja and her mother left Łódź
in November 1939, and reached Lviv through Małkinia and Białystok. Then,
the whole family managed to get to Poltava and then to Kamensk-Uralsky.
Repatriated in 1946 to Poland, they lived in Łódź at 65a, Gdańska Street. They
worked at textile factories in Łódź. Felicja graduated from school, the first
school of the Children’ Friends Society (TPD – Towarzystwo Przyjacił Dzieci),
and then she completed her studies at the Technical University in Leningrad
and Warsaw.
After the wedding, the Dobroszyckis settled in Warsaw. Felicja worked as
a translator of Russian. In 1960, their daughter, Joanna was born. Lucjan Do-
broszycki, as a researcher, dealt almost exclusively with the period of World

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