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Archiwum Państowe w Łodzi
State Archive in Łódź

Eliezer Lolek (born in 1923) and Rachela (born in 1925) Grynfeld come from
Łódź. Rachela grew up in the wealthy family of merchant, Abram Grynglas at
the Old Market Square. Eliezer lived nearby, in Nowomiejska Street, but they
met only after the war. After the creation of the ghetto, Rachela attended school
and worked sequentially in the carpet, straw and metal products departments.
During the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944, she was deported with her
family and was the only to survive the selection. Lolek and his mother moved to
the ghetto to Lutomierska Street. He worked in the ghetto as a postman and
messenger. He was in the group of people left to clean up the ghetto after its
liquidation. In the autumn of 1944, he was deported to Sachsenhausen, from
where he was taken to the death march. He managed to escape from the
death march and saved his life. After the war, they both returned to Łódź and
they met in one of the kibbutz in Zachodnia Street. After a dozen or so years of
life in Poland, they left for Israel and settled in Holon. Lolek became involved
in popularizing the history of Abram Koplowicz, his half-brother murdered in
Auschwitz, the author of poems, notes and drawings from the ghetto. Abram’s
drawing showing the scenery of the bridge and the church became a symbol
of the commemoration of the anniversaries of the ghetto’s liquidation.

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