Nachum Remba

Nachum Remba was born in Kolna, Poland in 1910, into a prominent Zionist family, Remba spent most of his adult life as a communal worker. Prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939, Remba was the secretary of the education department of the Warsaw Kehililla, the official administrative body of the Warsaw Jewish community. 

Although himself an employee of the Warsaw Judenrat, he did not hesitate to join a committee to combat corrupt Judenrat practices and he secretly organised some of the Judenrat employees into an association of which he was chairman.

During the initial phase of the mass deportation of the Jews of Warsaw Nachum Remba established a “First Aid Station,” right next to the Umschlagplatz, which was the collecting area for the Jewish people of Warsaw, before deportation to the Treblinka death camp.

The fake “hospital” was staffed with trustworthy doctors and nurses, Remba donned a long white doctors coat and entered the Umschlagplatz as head of the “hospital.”

He then pointed out to the German officers Jews he claimed were too ill to make the journey east, and demanded that he be permitted to take them into the “hospital.”

The Germans at first acceded to his requests, began to refer to him as Haupt-Artzt Remba.


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