Professor Józef Lipman was a child, when German troops occupied his hometown Boryslav (Boryslaw) in Eastern Galicia. Lipman is one of 150 survivors of the former Jewish community of Boryslaw which before the war had 18,000 members. In 2007, in a speech in Görlitz, Saxony, he described his experiences. Every line of it is worth reading – in order to never forget.
Before the war: Józef Lipman with cousin Rózia Grynszpan, mother and aunts. Behind Józef (from left to right): aunt Regina, mother Etka Lipman, aunt Fanka and aunt Zofia © Józef Lipman
Cousin Tusiek Lippman with dog. Tusiek was shot in 1944. © Józef Lipman
Grandmother Ryfka (Rebeka) Lippman, imprisoned in cinema Collosseum, then shot with hundreds of Jewish citizens of Boryslaw. © Józef Lipman
Identity card for slave worker Abraham Lippman (father of Józef Lipman) © Józef Lipman
Former movie theater Collosseum, where Jews of Boryslaw where kept before extermination. Now the building is used as a greek-catholic church. © Klaus Hasbron-Blume
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