Upstander Profile-Dawid Rubinowicz

Name: Dawid Rubinowicz

DOB: July 27,1927

DOD (date of death): September 22, 1942

Age: 15

Dawid Rubinowicz was born on July 27^th 1927 in Kielce, Poland. He was the older son of two sons born to Josek and Tauba Rubinowicz. Dawid also kept a diary that was unfortunately incomplete. Dawid’s recollects the horrors of everyday life under the Nazi Persecutions. He describes all these horrific events in the diary. He tells us about the Nazis shooting three Jews for absolutely no reason at all and then he tells us about the family that was shot to death and buried in their own backyard, because someone turned them in for hiding fur coats (a law stated that all Jews must hand in fur coats, anyone that does not, will receive the death penalty). Dawid’s diary was first published in Polish. Then, it was later translated into English. Dawid was only 12 when he began the diary and unfortunately, it ends in the middle of a sentence. Unfortunately, Dawid and his family were deported to Treblinka in 1942, where it is said that all of them perished in the gas chamber. Dawid was only 15 years of age when he perished.