According to Jurek Fancuz: At one point the Germans came into Klodawa and rounded up some townspeople and brought them to the outskirts. They had the people dig a ditch, crawl in, and then they were shot. Henyik was one of these people, but when they missed him when shooting. He was able to crawl out of the ditch, and he ran into the Polish town where he was taken in and saved by a family. He fell in love with one of the women in this family, who later came to the States to visit him, and maybe they were married [unclear on that]. When Henyik first came here, he worked in an ammunition factory. He later opened a clothing store in the New York City area.
Allen Burdowski writes referring to survivors photographed in Laupheim, Germany (c. 1945): "I was touched looking at this photo. I recognized my father Mark (Mordechai) Burdowski, my uncle Myer-Hirsh Burdowski, my cousin David Burdowski and his wife Regina. I also see family friends that I grew up knowing, the Nicinski family. There is even a picture of Henyik Opoczynski,who was instrumental in saving my father's life."
12/30/09 Per email David Cząstkowski in Israel: My name is David Cząstkowski son of Moishe Cząstkowski and Tauba Opoczinski. I and my mother are living in Israel. I met several times Heniek Opoczinski in Poland 1957-1961 and after that' in Israel. In the second picture appears my uncle Leiser Opoczinski (brother of my mother Tauba - the third picture) and his wife Ruśka. I met also at 1957 Shmil Skowronski in Moskow and Raine Oper in Israel.
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