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Kalisz, July 25, 1938. Standing: Szyja, Mojsie and the youngest, Majer; seated: Marisha and her fiancé, Regina and Hersz. Thirteen months later, the war began. Of this photograph, one survived.

Kalisz, July 25, 1938. Standing: Szyja, Mojsie and the youngest, Majer; seated: Marisha and her fiancé, Regina and Hersz. Thirteen months later, the war began. Of this photograph, one survived.Positions identified by the family (2026). Know more about this photo? flavio@fpripas.com

Zeide

I survived only to tell

The arc in 7 lines

  1. A tailor from Kalisz, eldest of five.
  2. The war splits him from his family in November 1939 — he leaves, they stay.
  3. Deported by the Soviets: labor camp, Siberia, Central Asia.
  4. Back in uniform, he enters Majdanek days after liberation — and there, he says, his family died.
  5. Alone in the world, he crosses borders: Bavaria, Paris, the steamer Groix.
  6. Santos, December 6, 1947. Clara, 1950. Three children, seven grandchildren.
  7. In 1997 he tells everything — "I survived only to tell". This site is the continuation.

The Interview

2h17 with a synchronized transcript, verbatim and edited.

The Journey

1914–2000 in ten chapters, document by document, with the thread of life.

Memorial

Fourteen screens to feel Mojsie Stobiecki's story — with his voice, whenever you choose to hear it.

Archives

Everything the research kept: the documents from archives in seven countries, the family photographs, the research notebooks in full and his voice — with provenance, piece by piece.

People

The Kalisz family, the uncles and cousins, the new life — each person with what he said and what the archives say.

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