Szlama (diminutive Szlamek) is a Polish Yiddish male given name of
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Shin-Lamedh- Mem is the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words and many of those words are used as names. The root meaning translates to "whole, safe, intact, unharmed, to go free, without blemish". Its earliest known form is in the name of S ...
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Notable people with the name include:
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Szlama Ber Winer
Szlama Ber Winer, '' nom de guerre'' Yakov (Ya'akov) Grojanowski (23 September 1911 – ), was a Polish Jew from Izbica Kujawska, who escaped from the Chełmno extermination camp during the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. Szlamek (the diminut ...
(1911–1942), Polish Jew from Izbica Kujawska, who escaped from the Chełmno extermination camp
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Szlama Grzywacz
Szlama Grzywacz (1909-1944) was one of the members of the French resistance executed at the fort of Mont Valérien as a member of the Manouchian group, a volunteer of the French liberation army FTP-MOI. His name is one of the ten which featured on ...
(1909-1944), member of the French resistance
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