Given name: Chana Family name: Unknown

  • YES
  • Female
  • Chana
  • aged 19
  • Łódź
  • She lived in Lodz at Radomska Street No. 27. Chana came from a rich house. Her father owned an underwear factory . She was brought up in luxury, nobody spoke Jewish in her house. She learned in a private gymnasium (junior high school). For most of her life Chana did not know that she was Jewish. She studied in Lodz. After her father's death they were no longer so wealthy. Soon after that the war started and the Germans entered Lodz. They took the factory from Chana's family and they threw them out from their flat. The family moved to Baluty together with Samek. Since then Chana and Samek were always together. Then, Chana and her mother left for Warsaw, where they had some relatives. But in their flat, which was situated in the ghetto, there were already some other people, who welcomed Chana and her mother for some time despite the cramped conditions. Later on Chana was on the 'Aryan side', in the hideout in Julia Larysz' flat, in Praga, Brzeska Street No. 7. She took part in the Warsaw uprising. For four months, from the final phase of the uprising to the liberation of Warsaw she hid in a bunker under the house at Franciszkanska Street No. 8. After the war she married Samek, they had a child (in 1959 it was 12). They lived in France.

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  • Chana hid in the bunker together with her love from Lodz- Samek. Her mother (after the Warsaw uprising) left together with Polish people.

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