Mosze Aron Holcman
Moshe Aharon Holcman, my uncle, brother of my father Meir
Holcman, born in Gombin around 1910 and pwerished in Chelmno on April 17th,
1942. He was one of 9 children of Rasza & Eliahu Holcman. Only my father
Meir and his sister Chana survived, being khalutzim in Kibbutz Evron and
Kibbutz Negba, Eretz Israel.
Moshe Aharon Holcman was very handsome and worked in the damily
Holcman business of fruits commerce. He married Miril from Wiszogrod (her
surname was not remembered by my late father Meir Holcman z"l) and had two
blond prettiest girls: Channale and Perla who was born only in 1937. All the
family murdered in the Holocaust.
Meir Holcman with the children of his brothers and sisters. Channa
Holcman - daughter of Miril from Wyszogrod and Mosze Aron Holcman is sitted at
the bottom, to the right. Perla was not born yet and is not in the picture.
In the first picture above, Mosz
Aharon 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.
Mosze 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
beloved wife and innocent daughters. I cannot. I can only do all what is in my
powers to commemorate you.
There in heaven, do know we never
forgot you!
Mosze Aharon Holcman was filmed by Sam Rafal, in his film from 1937:
His smile was frozen for ever... His memory will be preserved for ever!
The "Daf Ed" (Page of Testimony) filled for his memory by my father Meir Holcman in Yad Vashem:
Last Updated November 2nd, 2003