Mozes Salbe

From Holocaust Victims’ Instagram:

“Mozes Salbe”

Mozes Salbe was born on August 9, 1926.

 He was the son of Jewish Parents Icek Abraham and Estera.

Mozes was born in Radom, Poland. The first thirteen years of his life were happy, filled with many sabbath dinners.

There were 25,000 Jews living in Radom when the Nazis occupied the city on September 8, 1939.

A month later, Fritz Katzmann was appointed as the SS Police Leader. After his arrival, a wave of heavy violence plagued the Jewish community.

 Almost all Jewish Leaders were executed immediately, one even being publicly executed by being hit repeatedly in the head with a heavy stone.

The Radom Synagogue was raided and desecrated as worshippers inside were shot and used for Forced Labor.

This was just the cruel beginning. Mozes and his Family were forced into the Radom Ghetto in the spring of 1941.

At its peak, the ghetto would hold 33,000 people.

Starvation was common in the Ghetto, as was sickness and disease. Mozes and his Family lived at Wrzesniowskiego 34. The home where he lived still stands. The people who live there now likely do not know its tragic history.

In the Summer of 1942, the population of the Radom Ghetto dropped from 33,000 to 2,000.

This was a direct result of many German “Aktions” (Mass Deportations) to Auschwitz and Treblinka.

Sometime during this time, Mozes and his Parents were deported and murdered. He was only around Sixteen years old. He did not deserve this. May his memory be a blessing.