Mordko Krzepicki

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Mordko Krzepicki 8 July 1909 24 August 1952
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Early Information

• My father was born in Wielun, Poland, 200 kms SW
  Warsaw, 80km SW of Lodz
• He was married in Wielun on 20 September 1935
• His wifes name was Fela Habelska
• He was divorced on 19 September 1950 (Katowice,
  Poland)
• His parents were Szmul Krzepicki and Chana
  Fajwlowicz
• He arrived in Melbourne on 28 January 1949 on the
  Napoli
• He spent his first 30 years in Poland 1909-1939
• He spent the war years in
• Russia 1939-42
• Persia 1942
• Other Army theatres 1942-46
• United Kingdom 1946-48

Source National Archives Wielun Certificates
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FAJWLOWICZ (LOVETT) FAMILY TREE
LOVETT FAMILY TREE
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Mordko Krzepicki c.1946 3rd Rifle Battalion, 3rd
Carpathian Infantry Division, 2nd Polish Corps,
8th British Army
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Mordko Krzepicki, with mates in Palestine 1942
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Mordko Krzepicki, with mates in Palestine 1942
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Mordko Krzepicki in Palestine, 1942
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MILITARY HISTORY Sources of information

• APC Polish Historical Disclosures
• Ministry of Defence
• RAF Northolt (Barbara Kroll)
• Middlesex United Kingdom
• Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, Princes
  Gate, London
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and
  Peace
• Stanford University, California

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MILITARY HISTORY Cpl M Krzepicki

• July 1941 Released from Siberian labour camp
  after the Polish/Soviet Agreement
• Anders Army
• Polish Forces under British Command (Iran)
• 1942 - 43 3rd Rifle Battalion 3rd Carpathian
  Infantry Division
• 2nd Polish Corps 8th British Army
• Middle East (Iraq-Palestine-Egypt)
• 1944 - 46 Italy
• 1946 - 48 UK, Europe

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MILITARY HISTORY Cpl M Krzepicki

• 1943 - 44 Sangro and Rapido Rivers, Sth Apennines
• Battle for Monte Cassino
• Ancona/Goths line of enemy defences
• Rearguard of 8th British Army
• Northern Apennines
• 1945 Senio River
• Bologna/Lombardy Plain

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Divorcee, Sept.19th 1950, wife presumed dead
Mordko Krzepicki and Edna Dobson
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THE EUREKA MOMENT

• Daniel Mendelsohn at the
• Jewish Holocaust Museum, May 2007
• The Lost (550 pages)
• Stephen Spielberg Visual Testimonies at Monash
  University
• Eureka!!!!

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MY FATHERS FIRST WIFES FAMILY
Syma Habelska m Berl Benesz (Spielberg
Visual Testimony) Rosie m Jack Chrapot
(mother Lola Chrapot) four
children.. Fela Habelska m Mordko
Krzepicki 1935 , divorced post WW2 m
(2nd marriage) Helen m C Sanaki 2
children..
Nuchem Chabelski m Chaja Blic
Migrated to Melbourne 1949 Migrated to
Melbourne 1951
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KRZEPICKI FAMILY TREE Source Yad
Vashem, except
Lieb (Arie) KRZEPICKI m Rakhel ? Szmul
b.1889 d1941 m Khana (Chana) Fajwlowicz
b1890 d1941 Treblinka Yekhiel b? Mo
she (Menakhem) b1909 d1944 Lodz m Frida
BOMS b1911 d1944 Lodz
Yeshayahu
b1940/41 Mordke b1909 d1952 Melbourne
Rakhel b1914 d1941 Treblinka Tova/G
itel/Gizela b1918 d1941 Treblinka Kaza b1920
d1941 Treblinka Abram Dawid b 1913 ?
Yaakov b1882 d1942 Chelmo m
Frida (Fidel) GRANEK b1885 d1942
Chelmo Arie b? Rakhel b1914 d1942
Chelmo Lea b1922 d1942 Chelmo ???
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POLAND

• Wielun

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Wielun Plac Legionow
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Wielun Street Scenes
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Wielun Public Buildings
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Wielun Synagogue Destroyed September 1939
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Wielun Statues from the Communist era
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Wielun Urzad Stanu Cywilnego
Waiting at the USC
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Wielun Regional Museum Petje and Mr Jan
Ksiazek,Deputy Director of the Museum
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ul. Turowska, 19
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My Fathers last known address in Wielun His
family home? His wifes family home? His home
with his wife?
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WIELUN BUSINESSESSource 1929 Business
Directory, Wielun

• Lingerie M. Krzepicka ul. Fabryczana
• Fabrics Ch.Krzepicki ul. Kaliska
• Confectionery A. Krzepicki ul. Kaliska
• Dyers B. Krzepicki ul. Kaliska
• Bookshop L. Krzepicki ul. Fabryczana
• Office provisions B. Krzepicki ul. Kaliska
• Food traders L. Krzepicki ul. Kaliska
• Grains L. Krzepicki ul. Fabryczana
• Sz.Krzepicki ul. Barbary

Source Yale Reisner, JHI Warsaw
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INFORMATION FROM THE JEWISH HISTORICAL INSTITUTE
WARSAW
Krzepickis in Pre-War Wielun

• Leib a member of the Communist Party in 1930s
• Wowe (Zev) manager of a library, member of a
  Zionist organisation
• Abram Dawid convicted for communist activities,
  1933,1937
• My fathers brother?
• Berl Society of Jewish Craftsmen in late
  1920s
• Michel on the Board of the Socialist Party
• Michel Lewek one of the first Jewish families
  in Wielun. Bought real estate after 1806,
  when Jewish people were allowed to buy
  property

Source Yale Reisner / Wielun Yizkor book
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Wielun Zajazd Boryna
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USC at Boleslawiec (24km from Wielun)
USC at Praszka (19km from Wielun)
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Praszka Synagogue now a cinema
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Towns near Wielun
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Ruins of the Krzepice Synagogue
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Jewish Cemetery at Krzepice
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Lodz Radegast Station and Memorial
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Jewish Cemetery Lodz
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Jewish Cemetery Lodz, established 1811
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Graves dug prior to liberation
The Ghetto Field, burial place of 43,000
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Lodz Art Nouveau Buildings
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Lodz ul. Piotrkowska - Arthur Rubenstein
memorial
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Manufaktura Israel Poznanskis factory
converted to a Chadstone
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Another factory complex being converted to a
5-star hotel
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Museum of Textiles, Lodz
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The Grand Hotel, Lodz
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Podgorze (Krakow) pl.Bohaterow Getta
Entrance to Oskar Schindlers factory
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Sample Page from Ministry of Defence Personnel
Records
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Mordko Krzepicki 8 July 1909 24 August 1952