# Srul Wacholder (b.1920) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **3rd cousin 2x removed** ![[I521456.jpg|220]] **Born** 1920 — [[Lublin]] **Parents** [[Nusym Majer Wacholder (b.1894)]] · [[Fajga Liba Handelsman (b.1895)]] **Siblings** [[Josef Wacholder (b.1924)]] · [[Dawid Wacholder (b.1925)]] · [[Mendel Wacholder (b.1933)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I521456_1.jpg|180]] *GEDCOM I521456 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Srul Wacholder was born in 1920 in [[Lublin]], the eldest of the four recorded sons of [[Nusym Majer Wacholder (b.1894)]] and [[Fajga Liba Handelsman (b.1895)]]; his younger brothers were [[Josef Wacholder (b.1924)]], [[Dawid Wacholder (b.1925)]], and [[Mendel Wacholder (b.1933)]]. The only substantial account of his life survives in a Soviet source. When German forces occupied Lublin in September 1939, Wacholder was seized and held for four days in what he later described as a concentration camp, where he was beaten, starved, and interrogated by the Gestapo before escaping at night from a guarded square. He made his way home, then fled the city toward Chełm, crossed the Bug River into Soviet-held territory, was searched and released by Red Army soldiers, and was directed onward to Łuck (Lutsk).[^1] This narrative is drawn from Wacholder's own testimony to the NKVD, who interrogated him at Lutsk on 24 June 1940 — questioning, among other things, why he had abandoned his family. His interrogation file is held in the State Archive of Lviv Oblast (ДАЛО, ф. Р-3258, оп. 1, спр. П-14489).[^1] The circumstances of the June 1940 interrogation — an NKVD file opened on a Jewish refugee who had crossed into the Soviet zone — suggest he had come to the attention of the Soviet authorities, though the source read here records only the interrogation excerpt and not the outcome [?]. His subsequent fate is not established by the material reviewed. [^1]: Teatr NN (Ośrodek "Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN"), event page reproducing an excerpt of Srul Wacholder's NKVD interrogation protocol of 24 June 1940; citing State Archive of Lviv Oblast (Archiwum Państwowe Obwodu Lwowskiego / ДАЛО), ф. Р-3258, оп. 1, спр. П-14489. https://teatrnn.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie/wacholder-srul-informacja-pobyt-przez-4-dni-na-pracach-przymusowych-z-ktorych-uciekl/ ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - NKVD interrogation of Srul Wacholder, Lutsk, 24 June 1940 (excerpt reproduced by Teatr NN). States: born Lublin; upon the German occupation of Lublin (Sept. 1939) held 4 days in a camp ("concentration camp" per his own words), beaten and interrogated by the Gestapo about his "Führer"; escaped at night from a guarded square; returned home, then left Lublin toward Chełm, crossed the Bug River, was searched and released by Red Army soldiers, and was directed to Łuck (Lutsk), where he was staying at the time of the interrogation. Source archive: State Archive of Lviv Oblast (ДАЛО, ф. Р-3258, оп. 1, спр. П-14489). [teatrnn.pl](https://teatrnn.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie/wacholder-srul-informacja-pobyt-przez-4-dni-na-pracach-przymusowych-z-ktorych-uciekl/) ## Evidence ## Open questions