Project 'Long shadow of Sobibor' Survivors: Interview 03 Simcha (Simha, Symcha, Simkha) Bialowitz
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Simcha Bialowitz (1912) grew up in the shtetl of Izbica, a small Jewish community in eastern Poland. The Bialowitz family was observant. Simcha attend the Polish school, which had a few Jewish teachers. In the morning he would be in school, in the afternoon he would work in the local pharmacy and drugstore. When the Germans invaded, Izbica changed into a transitory ghetto. His father was murdered in the graveyard of Izbica, his mother and sisters were gassed in Sobibor. Simcha saw his mother and his two sisters when they arrived in the extermination camp. His sister tried to hand over a parcel, but Simcha refused to take it. He survived Sobibor together with his younger brother, Philip (whose interview is also on this website). During the interview Simcha discusses his stay in Sobibor in great detail. He recalls how Demjanjuk once stood up for him in the camp. His recollections are fragmented. After the war he married with Leah and together they emigrated to Israel. The final part of this interview consists of a conversation with Leah Bialowitz. Although this is outside the scope of the project, the transcript has been uploaded in this dataset under file name …
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