Abram Moise Bialek was born in Pajeczno in Poland on 12 February 1895 as a son of the butcher Judka Bialek and Sura Lieberman from Czestochowa (Poland). He married 10 June 1920 in Lodz the there born Chaja Gurke, a daughter of Berel Gurke and Perel Opatoiski. Abram, who practiced the same profession as his father, left Poland for Antwerp, were both were registered on 17 August 1920. Shortly after, they returned to Lodz where two children were born: their son Szaja in 1921 and their daughter Esther in 1923. From May 1926, they live again in Antwerp where in 1927 their 3rd child Herman was born.
Abraham Moisze Bialek and his family, who all had the Polish nationality, decided to go to the Netherlands. In 1928 he left already Antwerp, stayed in various places in Holland such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag and eventually ended up after six months on 18 March1935 in Amsterdam at the address Tweede Jan Steenstraat 53. Besides being a butcher, he was also a cook and he operated food parlors at all these different addresses. His wife and children joined him and in February 1937 the family moved to Govert Flinckstraat 326 3rd floor. But the marriage of Abram and Chaja did not last and on 21 April 1939 the marriage was dissolved in Den Haag.
In July 1939, Chaja Gurke and her three children then moved in with Eliazer Joachim Peper at Tweede Jan van der Heijdestraat 43 2nd floor in Amsterdam, to whom she was to be married on 29 May 1940. After the divorce, Abram Bialek moved in 1939 to Keizersgracht 722, in 1940 to Prinsengracht 598 and in 1941 to nr. 636.
In 1942 Abraham Bialek was probably called to work in one of the Jewish Labour camps in the North of the Netherlands but after the liquidation of those camps he ended up in Westerbork on 3 October 1942. On 20 February 1943 he was sent to concentration camp Vught, where he stayed in barrack 4a. From Vught, he was sent on 21 May 1943 to the Extern Command Moerdijk, where he ended up in barrack 3.
On 20 September 1943, Abraham Moisze Bialek and another 300 prisoners were sent from Vught to Westerbork, from where he was put on transport the next day – on 21 September – to Auschwitz. The total transport contained 979 deportees, from whom on arrival there on 23 or 24 September still various persons were selected for forced labour, among those also Abram Bialek. On 30 January 1944 he found himself in Monowitz but in the end he lost his life in the Extern Command Allach near Dachau, on 29 May 1945 at the most.
Sources include the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp nr. 162818 – image 549-565; the municipal archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Abram Moisze Bialek; the City archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Abram Moise Bialek, archive cards of Abraham Moise Bialek, Chaja Gurke, Szaja Bialek, Esther Bialek ,Herman Bialek and Rajzla Buijtekant-Bialek; Residence card of 2e Jan Steenstraat 53 Amsterdam; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abram Moise Bialek, Chaja Peper-Gurke, Szaja Bialek, Esther van Thijn-Bialek, Joseph van Thijn, the wikipedialistof jodenstransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and the certificate of death for Abram Moisze Bialek, made out in Amsterdam, nr. 482 d.d. 1-6-1951 from the het A-register 76-foloi 82