Leo Israel Schrimmer was born in Santomischel, Poland, 1900 to Samuel and Regine nee Schwerzentz. He was married to Johanna. During the war he was in Berlin, Germany. Leo Israel was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Auschwitz, Poland, 11/02/1943.
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.