Moshe Aharon Holcman, my uncle, brother of Meir Holtzman, born in Gombin around 1910.
He was the most handsome boy of the family.
He married Miril from Wiszogrod and had two blond prettiest girls: Channale and Perla who was born only in 1937. All the family murdered in Gombin.
In the first picture he is in his early twenties, bright future, busy in the family business of fruit and eggs commerce, happy... life is just beginning...
In the second picture, we see the same man, under the oppression in the Ghetto. The picture was stamped by the SS eagle nazi stamp, but one cannot see it clearly in the scanned picture. It was found, among other 5-7 pictures of other family members, in the municipality of Gombin, after liberation. In the chaos that prevailed there, one Jewish Gombiner, soldier in the Red Army, grabbed as many pictures as he could and brought to Israel years later.
Moshe Aharon Holcman. Only your eyes reveal the suffering and express the agony. Your look follows me everywhere, and your memory shall never be lost. I wish I could revenge your futile death, and the murder of your sweethearts. I cannot. I can only do all what is in my powers to commemorate you.
There in heaven, do know we never forgot you!
