nachum Remba by Michael Dolan

25mdolan — 2025-02-20 15:51:37 UTC

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.

Nachum Remba

25mdolan — 2025-02-20 16:01:58 UTC

Majdanek concentration camp

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 22:45:31 UTC

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 22:48:53 UTC

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.

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 22:53:27 UTC

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

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 22:54:33 UTC

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.

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 22:57:03 UTC

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.”

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 23:06:07 UTC

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 23:08:54 UTC

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.

Umschlagplatz deportation plaza

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 23:14:54 UTC

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 23:17:08 UTC

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.

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 23:18:43 UTC

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]

25mdolan — 2025-02-24 23:18:52 UTC

Nachum Ramba

25mdolan — 2025-02-26 03:24:14 UTC

Nachum Ramba

25mdolan — 2025-02-26 03:32:37 UTC

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