Josef Chaim Shemel

geboren 1870 in Lipno (bei Włocławek), ermordet 1942 in Warschau/Warszawa

Josef Chaim Shemel kam im Lipno zur Welt, einer Stadt in Zentralpolen. Er heiratete und hatte mit seiner Frau Rachel Lea Kinder. Die Familie lebte erst in Wloclawek, während des Krieges dann in Skieniewice in der Nähe von Warschau. Im Winter 1940 musste die Familie wie alle Juden der Region in das Ghetto von Warschau ziehen. Dort wurde Josef Chaim Shemel 1942 ermordet. Er war 72 Jahre alt.

Josef Chaim Shemel was born in Lipno, a town in central Poland. Josef, his wife Rachel Lea and their children first lived in Wloclawek, but during the war they set up home in Skieniewice near Warsaw. In the winter of 1940 the family along with all the Jews of the region had to move into the Warsaw ghetto. Josef Chaim Shemel was murdered there in 1942. He was 72 years old.