OPOCZYNSKI
According to Jurek Fancuz: At one point the Germans came into Klodawa and rounded up some townspeople and brought them to the outskirts. They had the people dig a ditch, crawl in, and then the were shot. Henyik [Opoczynski] was one of these people, but when they missed him when shooting. He was able to crawl out of the ditch, and he ran into the Polish town where he was taken in and saved by a family. He fell in love with one of the women in this family, who later came to the States to visit him, and maybe they were married [unclear on that]. When Henyik first came here, he worked in an ammunition factory. He later opened a clothing store in the New York City area.
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Allen Burdowski writes referring to survivors photographed in Laupheim, Germany (c. 1945): "I was touched looking at this photo. I recognized my father Mark (Mordechai) Burdowski, my uncle Myer-Hirsh Burdowski, my cousin David Burdowski and his wife Regina. I also see family friends that I grew up knowing, the Nicinski family. There is even a picture of Henyik Opoczynski,who was instrumental in saving my father's life."
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12/30/09 Per email David Cząstkowski in Israel: My name is David Cząstkowski son of Moishe Cząstkowski and Tauba Opoczynski. I and my mother are living in Israel. I met several times Heniek Opocyzinski in Poland 1957-1961 and after that' in Israel. In the second picture appears my uncle Leiser Opocyzinski (brother of my mother Tauba - the third picture) and his wife Ruśka. I met also at 1957 Shmil Skowronski in Moskow
Henyk Opoczynski. Landsberg, Germany DP Camp. ~1945
Przedecki & Friends. Klodawa c. 1936. L-R Sitting: Michael Skowronski, Tauba Opoczynski, Menesha Francuz. L-R Standing: Schmael Skowronski, Michuel Przedecki, Margalite Kreiger, Schloma Markewicz [Margalite's husband].
Menesha Przedecki & Friends: Klodawa ~1931. L-R: Leiser Opoczynski, Rachel Leszczynski, (wife of Leiser O.) Yetka Korn, Menesha Przedecki.
L-R Stella and Jurek Francuz. Esther and Menasze Pizer, Reina Cooper Opoczynski and Lajzer Opoczynski [standing]. New York/New Jersey,~ 1950.
KLODAWA GATHERING RAMAT GAN ISRAEL ~ 1960. STANDING LEFT TO RIGHT: GRANDSON MORDCHAI BUKS [grandson of Yochavet Rachel Przedecki], UNKNOWN, MOSHE REZYK, DAVID LANDAU, Eliezer Buks [grandson of Yochavet Rachel Przedecki] , CHAIM AVRAHAMIE, RUTHIE [FRANCUZ] AVRAHAMIE. SITTING LEFT TO RIGHT: ALEX EPSTEIN [CHAIRMAIN ISRAELI KLODAWA SOCIETY], UNKNOWN, ESTHER PIZER MARK [PRZEDECKI] PIZER, AARON RACHWALSKI, UNKNOWN, ITA OPOCZYNSKI, AVRUM OPOCYZNSKI.
"My father [Menachem Wakstok] appears in the picture of Menachem Landau bar mitzvah from 1961. He is sitting in the right hand, the second from the left between his friend Abraham Opochinsky (also from Klodawa) and his wife idith. See Breszwinski for names of other people in this photo." Hila Shefer Wakstok.17MAY2015.
Klodawa meeting Ramat-Gan Israel 1960's. L-R: Avrum Opoczynski, Aaron Rachwalski, , Menashe Pizer, Alex Epstein, David Landau, Moshe Resczyk.
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Klodawa Society Meeting Israel-Year Unknown. Photo submitted by Hila Wakstok Shefer 21JUN2015.Sittting fourth from right on the left side Avrum Opoczynski. The woman directly across from him on the right side is the Benjamin Landau's wife, as indentified by Menahem Landau 21JUN2015. Nobody else in the photo has been identified.
Avram Opocyznski (left) and Menachem Wakstok return to Klodawa ~1975.
Avrum Opocyznski (front with brown jacket talking), and Menachem Wakstok, (first on left with blue jacket/yellow shirt) Klodawa ~1975.
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