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Pages 1-5

George Preston's scrapbook

Grisza (Gersz) Priszkulnik started this 80-page leather-bound scrapbook in Poland and finished it in France, where he was arrested by the Gestapo on Aug. 8, 1942, and where he returned three years later after surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Page 1

Grisza was born in Rovno, Russia (soon it was Równe, Poland): Top left, 1 year old in 1915 with his mother, Sonia (Sura) Szojmer Priszkulnik; bottom right, 1938.

Page 2

Rovno: Housekeeper Vera with baby Grisza

Page 3

Równe: Younger brother, Jascha, skates with hockey stick on ice-covered pond; Jascha with cousin Chaim (Misha) Boyarsky; Grisza with Jascha; Grisza plays mandolin; father, Dovid Leyb Priszkulnik, reads a newspaper at home.

Page 4

Równe, 1929: Grisza, 15, dressed as Charlie Chaplin for a Purim ball.

Page 5

Równe: Grisza with Oświata School classmates: in chemistry lab; on Lag B'Omer and Purim in the Sosenki forest.

Pages 6-11

Page 6

Nowostaw, 1929: The family vacationed in a rented house there in summers, surrounded by pine trees and with a river to swim. Grisza's father would join on weekends.

Page 7

Równe, 1929: Top center, Grisza and three other boys wearing the special hat of the private, all-Jewish Oświata (Polish for Education) gimnazjum Polska-Żydowska from which he would graduate in 1932-33.

Page 8

Nowostaw, 1929-30: Grisza and friends

Page 9

Równe and Nowostaw: bottom left, 1938 photo of Jascha, father, stepmother; right, Wolf Boyarsky, Grisza's uncle. 

Page 10

Równe: Cousin Aron Marchez and unknown others

Page 11

Równe, 1930-31: Grisza the artist with palette and posters on Feb. 27, 1931; New Year's greeting, sixth grade; "Dawn," wall newspaper edited by Grisza, No. 6, Jan. 12, 1930; "Literary Department."

Pages 12-17

Page 12

Równe: 1929, Grisza plays chess. 1934, Grisza in swimsuit rests arm on a girl's leg. Center right, Grisza has thumb on a girl's arm. Pink photo, cousin Aron Marchez. 

Page 13

Warsaw, before-and-after images from a postwar French periodical: Top, Royal Castle, destroyed by Germans in September 1944; lower left, Napoleon Square; lower right, Brühl Palace, destroyed by Germans on Dec. 18, 1944.

Page 14

Równe: Sonia (Sura) Szojmer Priszkulnik wearing fur, pregnant with Grisza, Dec. 20, 1913. Sonia with her younger sister, Fania. Sonia at front entrance to the house on Zdolbunow Street.

Page 15

Równe: left, Sonia (Sura) Szojmer Priszkulnik, Grisza's mother; right, her sister, Fania Szojmer Boyarsky.

Page 16

Równe, 1929, and Nowostaw, 1929-30: Grisza plays chess. Sonia (Sura) at bottom left. At bottom right in tiny photo is Sonia in Warsaw, where Grisza accompanied her to a doctor's visit. 

Page 17

Równe: Sonia (Sura) at front entrance to the house on Zdolbunow Street (same photo on Page 14). In the empty space was a photo of Sonia, lying dead in her bedroom on Friday, Oct. 10, 1931. She died of an undiagnosed ailment at age 42. The photo is temporarily missing.

Pages 18-23

Page 18

Nowostaw, 1930: Grisza with parents and brother

Page 19

Warsaw: Grisza the engineering student

Page 20

Warsaw, before-and-after images from a postwar French periodical: top, French embassy; bottom, St. Alexander's Church 

Page 21

Wilno (Vilnius), 1935: Grisza the engineering student

Page 22

Cousin Aron Marchez photo inscribed to Grisza from Równe on Jan. 31, 1937. Aron survived the war in Russia and reunited with Grisza in Moscow in 1984.

Page 23

Wilno (Vilnius), 1935: Grisza the engineering student

Pages 24-29

Page 24

Krzemieniec, 1934-35; Lwów, 1935-36; Krynica

Page 25

University of Caen, 1935-36: Georges Priszkulnik studying at 14 Rue Frementel

Page 26

Georges on a motorcycle

Page 27

Le Havre, 1936

Page 28

1936

Page 29

Sept. 15, 1936: Suzanne

Pages 30-35

Page 30

Caen, 1937

Page 31

University of Caen, Technical Institute of Normandy, 1937: Grisza at far left. Diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering issued to "Gersz Priszkulnik," June 22, 1937. Same 21 men on Page 32.

Page 32

University of Caen, Technical Institute of Normandy, 1937: Grisza at far left in front row. Diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering issued to "Gersz Priszkulnik," June 22, 1937. 

Page 33

Deauville and Trouville, 1936-37

Page 34

Caen, 1937: Grisza and a friend at monument to galloping 14th century knight Bertrand du Guesclin, dedicated 1922. Sculptor Arthur J. le Duc (1848-1918). Same photo on Page 32.

Page 35

Równe, 1935, and Truskawiec, 1936:  Grisza's father, stepmother, and brother listen to a radio broadcast; Grisza smokes a pipe.

Pages 36-41

Page 36

Grisza and friends pose at a tree. Location and date unknown.

Page 37

Paris

Page 38

Paris

Page 39

Paris, 1937: Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life)

Page 40

Paris, 1937

Page 41

Paris, 1937

Pages 42-47

Page 42

Paris, 1937

Page 43

Paris, 1938

Page 44

Paris, 1937

Page 45

Paris, 1937

Page 46

Paris, 1937

Page 47

Paris, 1937

Pages 48-53

Page 48

Versailles, 1937

Page 49

Versailles, 1937

Page 50

Versailles, 1937

Page 51

Versailles and Paris, 1937

Page 52

Versailles, 1937

Page 53

Równe, 1938-39: Grisza visits his family; Grisza plays the mandolin; his stepmother plays the piano; bottom center, cousin Aron Marchez.

Pages 54-59

Page 54

Boston: Photos sent by relatives and positioned on page to replace Paris photos. Left, Uncle Philip Kramer and family; center and right, Aunt Jennie Kliger, her husband Philip Kliger, son Herbert Kliger. Philip Kramer and Jennie Kliger were siblings of Dovid Leyb Priszkulnik.

Page 55

Równe, 1938-39

Page 56

Równe, 1938-39

Page 57

Krynica, 1938

Page 58

Nowostaw, 1938

Page 59

Krynica, 1938 (same photos on Page 57)

Pages 60-65

Page 60

Malo-les-Bains (Dunkirk), 1939

Page 61

Równe: Brothers Grisza and Jascha. Jascha and their father and stepmother were among 23,500 Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Sosenki forest by German death squads and Ukrainian collaborationists over three days in November 1941.

Page 62

Lille, 1939-40

Page 63

Lille, 1940: Georges Priszkulnik, engineer

Page 64

Lille, 1940: Mme. Raymonde Demay

Page 65

Brussels, 1940

Pages 66-71

Page 66

Lille, 1940

Page 67

Lille, 1940: Mme. Raymonde Demay

Page 68

Lille, 1940: Georges Priszkulnik, engineer

Page 69

Lille, 1940

Page 70

Wilmington, Delaware, December 1982: Bill Frank column, Wilmington News-Journal, inserted out of chronological sequence

Page 71

Seclin and Amiens, 1940

Pages 72-77

Page 72

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, 1940: Top and center, Notre-Dame de Lorette, French National War Cemetery. The gate reads 1914. The cemetery holds the remains of 40,000 French Army soldiers, more than 22,000 of whom are marked as unknown.

Page 73

The origin of this photo of Grisza/Georges and the reason he placed it on this page are unclear.

Page 74

Lille

Page 75

Bersée

Page 76

Lille: Mme. Raymonde Demay

Page 77

Lille: Georges Priszkulnik

Pages 78-80

Page 78

Lille: Mme. Raymonde Demay

Page 79

Lille: Mme. Raymonde Demay

Page 80

Page 80

Paris: The last page is adorned with the advertising cards of four popular Parisian night spots.

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