David Alter Fishelov

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Lived in Mishevitz (Mikaszewicz), a shtetl of Pinsk, where he ran a bakery. Had 7 children, 6 daughters and one son, the 3rd born. David & Yenta had brothers and sisters: Mordechy, Ber, Ester. Wartime address Suedstrasse 50.

Wikipedia: The Free City of * Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (today Gdańsk) and surrounding areas. The Free City was created on 15 November 1920[1][2] in accordance with the terms of Part III, Section XI of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 without a plebiscite. The Free City included the city of Danzig and over two hundred nearby towns, villages, and settlements. As the League of Nations decreed, the region was to remain separated from the nation of Germany, and from the newly-resurrected nation of Poland. The Free City was not an independent State[3]; it was under League of Nations protection and put into a binding customs union with Poland. Poland also had special utilization rights towards the city.[4] The Free City was created in order to give Poland sufficient access to the sea, while at the same recognizing that its population was mainly German.[5] In 1933, the City's government was taken over by the local Nazi Party, the democratic opposition was suppressed and widespread anti-Semitic and anti-Polish discrimination and organized murder followed the German invasion of Poland in 1939, when the Free City was abolished and incorporated into the newly-formed Reichsgau of Danzig-West Prussia. This occurred without the approval of Poland or the League of Nations. Starting with the city's conquest by the Soviet Army in the early months of 1945, ethnic German citizens of the former Free City of Danzig were in large numbers forced to leave (expelled). The city was subsequently put under Polish administration by the Allied Potsdam Agreement, and Polish settlers were brought in to replace the German population.

MASSACRE AT PINSK (August 6-8, 1941) Pinsk (Belarus) was under Soviet rule for seven months and under the German occupation from July 4, 1941 to 1943. At the start of the Nazi occupation around 26,000 Jews lived in Pinsk. A month later the first 'Aktion' against the Jewish inhabitants took place. Helped by their Polish police accomplices, the SS murder squads rounded up between 7 and 8,000 male Jews. All were executed. The rest, numbering some 18,287 including 6,400 women and children were incarcerated in the newly established ghetto ten persons to a room and forced to work for the occupation forces. The ghetto, encompassed some 240 houses on 23 streets, all enclosed by a barbed wire fence 2,345 meters long. On October 27, 1942, the ghetto was liquidated. At 6.30am, all Jews in the ghetto were ordered to gather near the Jewish cemetery at Karlin near the village of Posenich about four kilometres from town. All were deprived of their money and valuables before being led in groups to the execution site guarded by members of Police Battalion 310 of the 15th Police Regiment. Those left behind in the ghetto, about 1,200 sick Jews and sick children, were simply shot. In the three days of slaughter around 11,000 Jews were murdered. On July 14, 1944, Pinsk was liberated by the Red Army. They found only 17 half starved Jews alive after hiding in cellars for 620 days and nights. Almost the entire Gentile population of Pinsk did little to help their Jewish neighbours but waited passively for the opportunity to steal their possessions and move into their houses. Today, only about 500 Jews live in Pinsk. http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres_east.html

Info confirmed and updated DOB from 1882 to 1884 on Jan 2020 from https://www.jewishgen.org/webtrees/individual.php?pid=I238&ged=1_12...

The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, YAD VASHEM, FEB 2020: Dawid Fischelew was born in 1887. He was a baker. During the war he was in Pinsk, Poland. Dawid was presumably murdered in the Shoah.

This information is based on a List of persecuted persons, found in List of Jews from the Pinsk Ghetto, prepared by the municipality, 08/1942-09/1942. The overwhelming majority of the Jews imprisoned in this ghetto were murdered in the Shoah. Last Name Fischelew First Name Dawid Gender Male Date of Birth 1887 Profession Baker Place during the War Pinsk,Ghetto,Poland Wartime Address Suedstrasse 50 Status according to Source prisoner of a ghetto where most of the population was murdered in the ghetto or elsewhere Source List of Jews from the Pinsk Ghetto, prepared by the municipality, 08/1942-09/1942 Type of material List of persecuted persons Item ID 8143817