The Blessed One

"The Blessed One"

Chaim Baruch Murawiec

January 26,1920 -

Chaim was born on Janurary 26th, 1920 in a small town in Poland called Parczew. Chaim had 2 brothers, Vova and Ebar and two sisters, Bena and Idas. They were not rich people, but lived a comfortable life. When he was thirteen his family moved to a town called Kobryn. Kobryn was much nicer than Parczew.Kobryn is no longer in Poland, but now is in Belarus. He had a lot of friends and girlfriends.

(Kobryn 1910)
Chaim was nineteen in 1939 when the Germans occupied Poland. His two sisters were taken in 1941 to a labor camp. They found out later that everyone who was taken that day was executed. His father was also taken to a labor camp and then Chaim was asked to go as well. That was the last day he saw his mother alive.
Chaim escaped from the labor camp and wound up in his hometown of Kobryn. There he found information that his father was still alive and that his mother and brothers were taken and killed. Finally he did find his father alive and spent some time with him. Later on his father sacrificed his own life in order to save Chaim's.

(Berlin 1945,Chaim far right)
Chaim joined the Polish Underground and eventually the Russian army. After the war he was placed in a DP (Displaced Person's) camp in Berlin, Germany and dealt in the black market and immigrated to the United States in 1950.

Chaim is my father.

My father and daughter April 2007