Waksztok/Vakshtok [see photos/emails bottom of page from Hila Shefer Wakstok]

As listed on Klodawa Merchants list: JAKSZLOK___ (flour) mill co-owner. [probably Walshtok]. Jurek Francuz recalled Walshtok as buying/selling chickens.

Menahem Walshtok was interviewed by the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation. See info below:

Name of Interviewee
Menaḥem Vaḳshtoḳ (release name)
Monik (other name)
Menachem Waksztok (other name)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 7/5/1927
City of Birth Klodawa (Lódz, Poland)< td>
Country of Birth Poland
Religious Identity (Prewar) traditional Judaism
Religious Identity (Postwar)  
Religious Identity (Time Period Unknown)  
Ghetto(s)  
Camp(s) Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Poland : Concentration Camp)
concentration camps, German
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Went into Hiding  
Member of Underground, Resistance or Partisan Group(s)  
Hiding or living under false identity (Location)  
Type of hiding place  
Resistance Group(s)  
Liberated by armed forces, Soviet
Location of liberation Czechoslovakia
Fled from Nazi controlled territory  
Forced (death) Marches Yes
Aid Giver, Liberator, or War Crimes Trials Participant  
Other Experiences escapes during transfers
State of Interview Southern
Country of Interview Israel
Language(s) of Interview Hebrew
Length of Interview 1:30
Interview Code 34762

 

Per email from Hila Shefer (Wackstok) 17MAY2015: My name is hila and I am the Douter of Menachem Wackstok from klodawa. My father's family killed in Chelmno . He was the only one who servived. My father appears in the picture of Menachem Landau bar mitzvah from 1961. He  is sitting in the right hand, the second from the left between his friend Abraham opochinsky(also from klodawa) and his wife idith.The Parent's of my father Were Moshe and Chaja and They have Flour Mill in Klodawa. Do you have more information about my father's family or even picturs or documents? With all reegards.Hila Shefer(Wackstok) From Israel. (SEE PHOTO BELOW):

"My father [Menachem Wackstok]appears in the picture of Menachem Landau bar mitzvah from 1961. He  is sitting in the right hand, the second from the left between his friend Abraham Opochinsky(also from klodawa) and his wife Ita. See Breszwinski for names of other people in this photo." Hila Shefer Wakstok. 17MAY2015.

EMAIL FROM HILA SHEFER WAKSTOK 17MAY2015: You are so lucky with your uncle because my father almost didn't talk about happy times in klodawa. He hardly remembered he's brother and sisters. He told us about he's grandfather Kaufman Krzewacki That was very tall men and everyone met him. and we know He had The flour mill. He told us about he's mother who was very worm  and loving person and she use to work in a shop the family ouned And she was not so religious women. my father was very close to her. She use to send him letters after the German's took him from home Until it stopped. He's Father, But my father use to talk about the War and Oushwiz a lott . He saw it like a mission that the new generation will know and Never forget. He use to go in "YOM HASHOA" to schools and tell he's story and he even succeed to come to my 2 bigger children's class. Hila.

 

BELOW PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY HILA WAKSTOK MAY 2015:

Moshe and Chaja-Hela [nee Krzewacki] Wakstok. Klodawa.Grandparents of Hila Wakstok, parents of Menachem. (see Yad Vashem Page of Testimony below for Chaja-Hela)

Young Menachem Wakstok in Israel-1948
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Menachem Wakstok and wife Sarah in front of his travel agency-Israel 1965. Menachem Wakstok in his travel agency 1996.
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EMAIL FROM HILA WAKSHTOK SHEFER 05SEP15: (re: photo above)
My parents were very well known in Ashkelon. My father was the only travel agency in town for many years and also did a lot of things for the city. Thanks to him there wer a lot of tourists there and he took place in many festivals and ceremonies in Askelon. Also, my mother was known . she was history teacher in the main high schoole for 30 year and also workes in the municipality as a travel guide. When I was in elemantry school after they died I wrote to the people who worked in Ashkelon and asked them to call a street after their names and it took 4 years, but
they were delighted to do so. The street is not far away from their home in Ashkelon. I am very proud. thank you. When you will com to Israel i will take you there. Hila.

 

MENACHEM AND SARAH WAKSTOK AND FAMILY 2006.
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PER HILA WAKSTOK 07JUN2015: I'm sending you pictures of my family and Avraham Opocznski in 1991 when we visit in Polland and Klodawa:

Menachem Wakstok (right) Avrum Opocynski (left) return trip to Klodawa 1991.

Per Hila Shefer Wakstok: 07JUN2-15: Many of them are local people from Klodawa.The one with the back is Avraham Opozcnski .My father (Menachem Wakstok) is standing in the left side.They are standing near a building who use to be a shop of my father's family. His mother worked there before the war.

 

Menachem Wakstok and family outside the building that was their family home. Klodawa 1991. The remains of the Krzewacki family flour mill. Klodawa 1991.

 

 

Klodawa Society Meeting Israel-Year Unknown. Photo submitted by Hila Wakstok Shefer 21JUN2015.Sittting fourth from right on the left side Avrum Opoczynski. The woman directly across from him on the right side is the Benjamin Landau's wife, as indentified by Menahem Landau 21JUN2015. Nobody else in the photo has been identified.

 

 

KLODAWA SOCIETY MEETING ISRAEL (1980?) . PHOTO TAKEN BY MENACHEM WAKSTOK, SUBMITTED BY HILA WAKSTOK. 1ST MAN SITTING ON RIGHT BENJAMIN LANDAU. KLODAWA SOCIETY MEETING PHOTO #2 TAKEN BY MENACHEM WAKSTOK. FIRST MAN SEATED ON RIGHT AVRUM OPOCZYNSKI. ACROSS TABLE ON LEFT IN RED SHIRT MOTHER OF MENACHEM LANDAU. STANDING IN REAR IN WHITE SHIRT HILA WAKSTOK SHEFER.

 

YAD VASHEM PAGE OF TESTIMONY FOR CHAJA KRZEWACKI WAKSTOK, COMPLETED BY HER SON MENACHEM WAKSTOK-1979. PAGE FORWARDED BY HILA WAKSTOK SHEFER 09JUL2015.

WASKSTOK/KRZEWACKI POLISH RECORDS OF 1942-PROVIDED BY BARBARA GANCZYK:

Waksztok

Abraham Hersz

13.02.1930

ur. i mieszk. Kłodawa, s. Mojsie Chaim i Chaja Krzewacka, yv: zamordowany 1941 Chełmno, świadek brat. Ocalony. http://warszawa.getto.pl/index.php: Marian Wagsztok, 1930 w Kłodawie, po wojnie w UK

yv as wg

Waksztok

Byna

10.06.1932

ur. Kłodawa, c. Mojsie Chaim i Chaja Krzewacka,

as

Krzewacka Wkasztok

Chaja

1905

ur. i mieszk. Kłodawa, c. Kaufman i Rachela, zamordowana 1941 Chełmno

yv

Waksztok

Chawa

18.05.1927

ur. Kłodawa, c. Mojsie Chaim i Chaja Krzewacka, ku: 1934/1935 kl. I a; yv: zamordowana 1941 Chełmno, świadek brat

ku yv as

Waksztok

Jechiel Mejer

1906

ur. i mieszk. Kłodawa, małż., zamordowany 1941 Chełmno, świadek znajomy; świadek Landau

yv jg

Wkasztok

Makjasz

1926

s.. Mojżesz i Chaja. Ocalony

ŻIH

Waksztok

Menachem

10.09.1924

ur. Kłodawa, s. Mojsie Chaim handlarz i Chaja  Krzewacka [1898]; wnuk Kaufmana Krzewackiego;  ku: 1934/1935 kl. Iva; Ocalony, w zeznaniu http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/vha34762 podał datę urodzin 1927; obozy koncentracyjne / niemiecki Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Polska: Śmierć Obóz) Auschwitz III- Monowitz (Polska: Obóz koncentracyjny) Czechosłowacja, ucieczka z transportu. Izrael, kod wywiadu 34762

ku as USCSFI

Waksztok

Mosze Chaim

1900

wiatrak kupiec

as: handlarz, mieszk. Kłodawa [1898], małż. Chaja Krzewacka, yv: ur. Brudzew, s. Mendel i Chawa, małż., zamordowany 1941 Chełmno, świadek syn

yv APP as

Waksztok

Mosze Chaim

2.03.1895

kupiec

ur. i mieszk. Brudzew, s. Mendel i Chawa Grinberg, 30.01.1923 małż. Chaja Krzewacka 25 ur. Kłodawa [1897] c. Nachman i Ruchla Sieradzka

as

 

 

Email from Hila Wakstok Shefer 15SEP2015: Yesterday we visited in our parents road in Ashkelon and took pictures.I am sending to you 2 of them.In one picture is my sister, my brother and me.

Email from Hila Wakstok Shefer 15SEP2015: And in the second one (above)is: my brother (Moshe), his wife (Yael), their boys (Nir And Rotem) My sister (Chava), my husband (Yaron), my 3 children (Inbar, Yuval and Nadav) and me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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