Given name: Winston Family name: Churchill

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  • Male
  • Winston
  • Churchill
  • 1874-11-30
  • 1965-01-24
  • Blenheim Palace
  • Londyn
  • a British politician, speaker, strategist, writer and historian; a two-time PM of the United Kingdom, the winner of the Nobel's Prize for literature

  • The author wrote his memoirs hiding on the so-called 'Aryan side'. it is well-known that he did not survive until the liberation. The memoirs were submitted to the Jewish Historical Institute by two writers: Helena Boguszewska and Jerzy Kornacki. The author describes: the siege of Warsaw in 1939; the early days of the German occupation; the persecution of the Jews; ghetto formation; description of everyday life in the ghetto; influx of deportees, starvation, epidemic; the great deportation action in the summer 1942; selection of workers in the 'shops'; living conditions in the 'rump' ghetto; blackmail of Jews on the co-called 'Aryan side'; the role of the Polish Police and the Jewish Police (Order Service). Published: Pamiętniki z getta warszawskiego (Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto), Warsaw, 1993, pp. -26, 95-96, 116-17, 140-142, 155-156, 178-179, 205-208 (fragments).

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