David Brzezinski

David Brzezinski was born in Inowrazlaw on 19 June 1873. He was a teacher in Rawitsch and Berlin, where he worked as an elementary school teacher in Friedrichshain from 1925. David Brzezinski was married to Anna Radziminski, born on 3 August 1871 in Janowitz. The marriage took place in Wreschen in 1896. In Berlin, David and Anna Brzezinski lived first at Wallnertheaterstr. 1 (today Lichtenberger Str.) in Friedrichshain and from about 1930 at Livländische Str. 26 in Wilmersdorf.

The couple had two children. Alfred Brzezinski was born in Miloslaw on 17 June 1897. He was killed in action in World War I on 21 August 1916. Bertha Brzezinski was born on 28 April 1901, also in Miloslaw. From 1922 to 1935 she was married to the merchant Otto Paul Kurnik, later (at least from 1939) her family name was Wolff.

The Brzezinski family was persecuted as Jewish in Nazi Germany. David Brzezinski died in Berlin on 14 January 1934. Anna Brzezinski lived at Starnberger Str. 2 in Schöneberg in 1939, then at Marburger Str. 5 in Charlottenburg. She died on 5 February 1942 in the Jewish Hospital in Berlin. Bertha Wolff was deported from Berlin to the Riga ghetto on 25 January 1942 and murdered. An exact date of death is not yet known.

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