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Herschel Rosenblat
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Herschel Rosenblat was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland in 1916. He was the youngest of three sons. His parents decided to move the family to Radom, a more industrialized city with a greater Jewish population, when he was a child. In 1930, Herschel began helping his father in his shoemaking business after finishing his schooling. A friend of Herschel's helped him find a full-time job as a house painter. Herschel was drafted into the Polish cavalry and his career as a painter was posponed for two years. World War II Herschel served in the Polish cavalry again in August 1939 after Germany threatened to invade Poland. He avoided being captured by the Nazi Army as a POW. After his escape, he headed for home. After witnessing the Nazis attack his older brother, Itzik, he fled east. He found work as a painter in Slonim, a Soviet-occupied town. In 1941 he fell from a scaffold while painting. When the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, he was still in the hospital with a broken leg. Three days later, Nazi troops marched into Slonim. While most of Herschel's friends fled the city, he lay in his hospital bed.Einsatzgruppen, or mobile killing squads, entered Slonim in search of Jews. Herschel and other patients were shot in their hospital beds by the Einsatzgruppen. Herschel Rosenblat died in Slonim at the age of twenty-five. 
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