Grojanowski-Winer

Szlama ber Winer 

Szlama (AKA Jakub Grojnowski and Szlamek Bajler or Shlojme Fajner)

Source: Wikipedia. “…sometimes incorrectly referred to as Szlamek Bajler in literature by the surname of his nephew, Abram Bajler, from Zamość. Szlama Ber Winer escaped from the Waldlager work commando at Chełmno (German: Kulmhof), and described in writing the atrocities he witnessed at that extermination camp, not long before his own subsequent murder at the age of 30, in the gas chambers of Bełżec. His deposition is commonly known as the Grojanowski Report.They lived in Izbica just north of Chełmno before the Holocaust. It was an area of interwar Poland which had been annexed in 1939 by Nazi Germany as part of the new territory of Reichsgau Wartheland earmarked for complete “Germanization”. In 1940 the Nazis created a ghetto in Izbica for 1,000–1,600 Jews.[3] On 12 January 1942 Winer was deported to Chełmno extermination camp, to slave labour with the camp’s Sonderkommando.^[4][5] Two days later, the Izbica Ghetto was liquidated through deportations of 900–1,000 others to extermination on 14–15 January 1942. Szlamek was spared but witnessed the death of his own family in the commando. On Monday, 19 January, Szlamek escaped by slipping out of a lorry on the way to the Rzuchów forest subcamp.”