The death certificate of Juliusz Leibel

The death certificate of Juliusz Leibel, Emilia's husband, issued by the Górno-Maryjski District Registry Office in 1944. Ii is issued on a one-sided stencil print, with additions in handwriting.

In the summer of 1939, fleeing to Jarosław with her husband's family before the expected outbreak of war, Emilia Leibel lost her furs and silverware (the luggage she had sent went missing). She did not have enough money on her, as she was planning to stay with her parents in Kraków; she had to pay for the hotel with borrowed money. On the fourth of September, Juliusz Leibel arrived in Jarosław by car, but without much cash and without any valuables. They were determined to go to Romania, but the chaos on the roads towards the border meant that they wandered around various places. They spent several months in and around Dubno.

Eventually, the entire large family (Juliusz Leibel's parents and his brother with his family, sister and niece, Emilia and Juliusz Leibel with their daughter Halina) settled in Lviv. Juliusz Leibel earned his living by driving passengers. From Lviv, the entire family was deported deep into the Soviet Union. There, 48-year-old Juliusz Leibel fell seriously ill due to malnutrition and working beyond his strength at felling wood in the cold (according to another version, due to a ruptured aorta after being hit by a bale of wood). He was buried in the Orthodox cemetery.

The death certificate states the date of death as 4 March 1944.