Yerakhmiel Risio Blass was the Polish-Jewish son of Gdaliyahu and Khana (née Charna) Blass. He was possibly born in Wlocławek in 1936. He had a sister, Tami (1939).
Yerakhmiel Risio Blass was the Polish-Jewish son of Gdaliyahu and Khana (née Charna) Blass. He was possibly born in Wlocławek in 1936. He had a sister, Tami (1939). His parents were Polish Jews. In December 1939, both the immediate and extended family, which included cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents, were put on a train from Wloclawek to Zamosc. Khana was pregnant with Tami and began to have contractions. She asked to get off the train together with her husband. When an SS officer saw her husband climb down after her, he was forced to go back on the train. When Khana told the officer that he was her husband, the SS man threw Risio out of the train. It's unknown where exactly Tami was born. The remaining family on the train were sent onwards to Zamosc ghetto where they remained together until Tami's grandparents were deported to the extermination camps. In 1940, a cousin escaped Zamosc and returned to Warsaw. There she found Khana, Tami and Rysio. She told Khana that eve...