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Nachum Remba was born in Kolna, Poland in 1910, into a prominent Zionist family, Remba spent most of his adult life as a communal worker. Prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939, Remba was the secretary of the education department of the Warsaw Kehililla, the official administrative body of the Warsaw Jewish community.

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He placed himself in an ambulance at the entrance to Umschlagplatz deportation plaza where all the Jews were assembled for deportation . By bribing the guards, he was allowed to remove some Jews from the masses converging on the plaza, saving hundreds of children and adults.

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Nachum Remba was captured during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943 and deported to the Majdanek concentration camp, where he was murdered in the Aktion Erntefest massacres on November 3, 1943 ¹ ⁴.

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The fake “hospital” was staffed with trustworthy doctors and nurses...Remba donned a long white doctors coat and entered the Umschlagplatz as head of the “hospital.” He then pointed out to the German officers Jews he claimed were too ill to make the journey east, and demanded that he be permitted to take them into the “hospital.”

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In 1939, German authorities began to concentrate Poland's population of over three million Jews into a number of extremely crowded ghettos located in large Polish cities. The largest of these, the Warsaw Ghetto, collected approximately 300,000–400,000 people into a densely packed, 3.3 km² area of Warsaw.

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During the initial phase of mass deportation, Remba established a "First Aid Station" near the Umschlagplatz, where Jewish people were collected before deportation to the Treblinka death camp ². Even in Maidanek, he remained true to himself and spent time with children to lift their

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Interview w/ Holocaust Survivor Dr. David Jakubowski - Part II: POW to Physician in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-42)

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Dr. David Jakubowski, a Polish born physician who tended to hundreds of Polish soldiers during the Nazi blitzkrieg of Poland and to thousands in the Warsaw Ghetto through the uprising of 1943, vividly retells his experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. Born in 1911, he was the first in his family to pursue secular study, and graduated from the Univ. of Krakow with a medical degree and a Ph.D in Chemistry.

A captain in the Polish Army when the Nazis invaded Poland, he spent 10 months in a Nazi POW Camp before his transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto, where he worked closely with his good friend, Dr. Nachum Remba. He survived 5 Nazi concentration camps following the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. As the physician of the Hersbruck camp infirmary, he saved the life of the great Rabbi David Shapiro (who settled in Furth) during the harsh winter of 1945.

The death march to Dachau in 1945 put him "one step, not even that, ahead of the angel of death." Following his liberation, he worked closely with teams from the US Armed Forces to establish and manage a number of hospitals and TB clinics for survivors. He immigrated to the US in 1949 and was licensed the next year. He later established a family medical practice in Syracuse, NY, which thrived until he retired in 1984.

His proud, fighting spirit is on display in this interview, taken just two years before his death in 1997. For those feeling overwhelmed by life, I hope his story, and that of his wife Helen, inspire you to find the strength to overcome your adversities. For those seeking excellent educational tools to teach about the experiences of those who lived through the Holocaust, you'll find them here in the oral testimonies of Dr. and Mrs. Jakubowski.

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In 1988, a memorial was erected in Warsaw to commemorate the deportation victims from the Umschlagplatz. The monument resembles a freight car with its doors open. It is located on the corner of Stawki Street.[7]

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Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) was the term used during The Holocaust to denote the holding areas adjacent to railway stations in occupied Poland where Jews from ghettos were assembled for deportation to Nazi death camps. The largest collection point was in Warsaw next to the Warsaw Ghetto.