Eliezer Eisenshmidt (b. Lunna 1921); Was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkommando; escaped from the "death march" on Jan. 19, 1945, arrived in Israel in 1946; resides in Givatayim.

Eliezer Welbel (b. Lunna 1916, d. Chicago 2006); Served in the Polish army and was taken prisoner at Biala Podlaska when WW2 began; escaped and returned to Lunna, which was then under Soviet rule; was sent by the Soviets to prison in Minsk; returned to Lunna when Minsk was overrun by the Germans in June 1941; was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkomando; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan. 25, 1945; liberated from camp Gusen 2 (a branch of Mauthausen) on May 5, 1945; in 1947 arrived in Israel and a few years later moved to Chicago.

Nathan-Nisel Lewin (b. Lunna 1914, d. Argentina during 1970s); Was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkommando; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan. 25, 1945; liberated from camp Ebensee (a branch of Mauthausen) on May 6, 1945; after the war moved to Argentina.

Aizik Nowik (b. Lunna 1918, d. Argentina ca. 1980); Was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkommando; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan. 25, 1945; liberated from camp Ebensee on May 6, 1945; after the war moved to Argentina.

Berl Becker (b. Lunna 1896, d. US, year?); Was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkommando; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan. 25, 1945; liberated from camp Ebensee on May 6, 1945; after the war moved to the United States.

Aron Leibowicz (b. Wolpa 1899, d. Canada, year?); Resided in Lunna before the war; was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkommando; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan. 25, 1945; liberated from camp Ebensee on May 6, 1945; after the war moved to Israel and resided in Bnei Brak; later moved to Canada.

Tewel Gisser (b. Wolpa ca.1920, d. US ca. 1950?); Resided in Lunna before the war; was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkommando; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan. 25, 1945; liberated from camp Ebensee on May 6, 1945; after the war apparently moved to the United States. All traces of him were lost after he arrived in the United States.

Aron Welbel (b. Lunna 1924); Eliezer Welbel's brother; was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in Auschwitz, among other things, digging holes and sewage canals; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and then sent to Dachau (Germany); liberated April 29, 1945; after the war moved to Chicago.

Moni Berenhaus (b. Lunna 1916, d. US 1995); Was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in Canada Unit; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan. 25, 1945; liberated May 6, 1945; after the war moved to the United States and resided in New York.

Gerszon Gisser (b. Lunna 1912-14, d. US Nov. 9, 2002); Son of Yudel Gisser and Doba nee Yellinovitch (who was born in Volpa). Brother of Motel Gisser. Sole survivor of his family; served in the Polish army when the war began, stationed near Suwalki; was taken prisoner in Sept. 1939 and was in, among other camps, Stalag 1B near Koenigsberg, then taken, with other Jewish war prisoners, to Konska Wola, Biala Podlask, Budzyn (near Maidanek), Plaszow?, Flossenburg, and possibly other camps; was liberated on May 8 or 9, 1945 from Litomerice (Leitneritz) near Teresenstadt, Czechoslovakia, after a forced march. After the war, spent a year in 1945-46 in Poland, and then was in Displaced Persons (DP) camps, including Deggendorf and Amberg, and emigrated to the United States in 1949.

Nochum-Yossel Davidowicz (b. Lunna 1921); His elder brother Zebulon (Zavel), who served in the Red Army, came back to Lunna before the Germans occupied the town, warning him to flee. He was caught by the Nazis while attempting to flee, and taken to the Grodno Ghetto; in 1942 (before the mass deportation of the Jews of Lunna to Auschwitz) was sent to Auschwitz and was there until April 1945; worked for the IG-Farben factory at Monowitz (Auschwitz III); was on a "death march" to the North Sea; was liberated by the US Army on May 2, 1945.
 

Chana (Rochkin) Sedranski (b. Lunna ca. 1904, d. Israel 1970s.); Left Lunna sometime before the war and arrived in Grodno; was in Grodno Ghetto from November 1941 to March 1943; then in KZ Bialystok until October 1943; then in Stutthof camp Nr. 201; eventually deported to Auschwitz, and was in the women’s camp in Auschwitz; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Ravensbruck women's Concentration Camp, Germany; after war was in various DP camps; arrived in Israel in 1950 and married to Sedranski from Wolpa.
		Record of Chana Rochkin (source: Yad Vashem)

Etel (Berachowicz) Kossowska-Zinger (b. Lunna ca. 1910, d. Israel, year?); she married Aaron Kossowski, son of Shlomo and Elka, and they had a son named Shlomo. Before WW2 they lived in Bialystok. During the war they were in the Ghetto in Bialystok. Aaron and his son Shlomo perished in the Holocaust. Etel was in the women’s camp in Auschwitz; she was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945, then in Bergen-Belsen camp, Germany, which was liberated by the British on April 1945. After the war she was in various DP camps. In 1949 she came to Israel and remarried to Zinger (first name currently unknown).
Etel wrote (in Yiddish) an article "The Destruction of Lunna-Volie" (Grodner Apklangen, 1949).

Fate of other Jews of Lunna

Nachman Replanski (b. Lunna ca. 1904, d. US 1980s) ; Served in the Red Army; Shortly after the war ended returned to Lunna in Russian uniform and met a gentile man (name currently unknown) from Zaleski (near Wola) whom he knew who had collected photos left by Jewish families after they had been expelled from the Wola Ghetto; he received several photos from this gentile man; after discharge from the Russian Army, he moved to the US and resided in New York; Later he moved to Miami, Florida.

Rivka Lev (b. ca. 1922 Lunna); Daughter of M. Lev, a cap-maker from Lunna; during the war she was in Russia, and in this way survived; after the war she moved to Warsaw and married to a Christian man. It could be that she is still alive in Poland (current family-name unknown).

Benjamin ("Yomke") Win (b. Lunna ca. 1896, d. Israel year?); before the war he moved with his wife to Shchuchin (Scucyn); during the war he was in Russia and in this way survived; after the war moved to Brazil and then to Argentina where a brother of his resided; in the late 1960s emigrated to Israel.

Abraham Friedman Ajzikovich (b. 1902 Lunna, d. Moscow); Executed sometime from the 1930s to the early 1950s in Moscow during Stalin's reign of terror.

Aba Suchowlanski (b. Skidel 1897); Resided in Lunna before the war; was on the transport that left Kelbasin on Dec. 5, 1942; worked in the Sonderkommando; was on the "death march" that left Auschwitz on Jan. 18, 1945; arrived in Mauthausen Jan.25, 1945; one day in March 1945, he went to the medical clinic in Mauthausen and did not come back to the block; his fate is unknown.

Zebulon (Zavel) Davidowicz (b. Lunna ca. 1918); Served in the Red Army; all traces of him were lost.

Israel Friedman (b. Wola ca. 1915), son of Aron and Golda Friedman and his cousin Israel Friedman (b. Lunna ca. 1916), son of Chaykel and Chana Friedman; Both cousins left Lunna sometime during the 1930s and went to Russia for the purpose of either studying or looking for work. Before the outbreak of the war, they sent letters to their family in Lunna-Wola from Magnitogorsk, Chelybinsk Oblast. According to Eisenshmidt, they were not in the Wola Ghetto and therefore it is likely that they did not return to Poland but stayed in Russia during the war. All traces of the two cousins were lost in Russia. Pictured below is a photo taken in 1938 showing Israel, son of Aron Friedman. It is likely that one of the two unidentified young men is Israel, son of Chaykel Friedman. If anyone has any idea how to find out the fate of these two persons, please contact us.
 

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