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 they were shot. Henyik 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.

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."

12/30/09 Per email David Cząstkowski in Israel: My name is David Cząstkowski son of Moishe Cząstkowski and Tauba Opoczinski. I and my mother are living in Israel. I met several times Heniek Opoczinski in Poland 1957-1961 and after that' in Israel. In the second picture appears my uncle Leiser Opoczinski (brother of my mother Tauba - the third picture) and his wife Ruśka. I met also at 1957 Shmil Skowronski in Moskow and Raine Oper in Israel.
 


Henyik Opoczynski
Laupheim, Germany 1945/6

Menesha Przedecki & Friends: Klodawa 1932. L-R: Leiser Opoczynski, Rachel Leszczynski, (wife of Leiser O.) Yetka Korn, Menesha Przedecki.


Michuel 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].


L-R: Stella and Joe Francus (Klodawa survivors), Esther and Mark Pizer, Leiser [Opoczynski] and Raina [Cooper] Opoczysnski [Opper].
New York City c. 1950.

Per Hila Wakstok Sheferemail MAY 2015: I Knew Avram Opoczynski who Died 10 Years ago and still in touch with his wife Irit.

"My father [Menachem Wackstok]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.

 

Left to Right: Avrum Opocyznski, Aaron Rachwalski, Menashe Przedecki, Alex Epstein, David Landau, & Moshe Rezyk. Klodawa Librarians, Ramat Gan Israel ~ 1960.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

Menachem Wakstok (right) Avrum Opocynski (left) return trip to Klodawa 1991. Photo submitted by Hila Shefer Wakstok 07JUN2015.
Per Hila Shefer Wakstok: 07JUN2-15: Many of them are local people from Klodawa.The one with the back is Avraham Opozcnski .My father (Menachem Wakstok) is standing in the left side.They are standing near a building who use to be a shop of my father's family. His mother worked there before the war. Klodawa 1991.