Gross-Limonik family. Collection
Baruch alias Bernard Gross was born on 25 July 1908 in Losie, Poland, as the twelfth of fifteen children born to the orthodox Hassidic couple Arie Leib Gross and Silka Gross. The family lived in the shtetl Gorlice and spoke Yiddish at home. Bernard attended a cheder and was well educated in the Jewish scriptures. In his free time he played chess. In 1927 Bernard’s parents sent him abroad so he would ...