Given name: Mikołaj Family name: Piotrowski

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  • Male
  • Mikołaj
  • Piotrowski
  • an engineer, in 1942 he lived in Kaweczynska Street. He had a wife Nina and four children: three boys between 10 and 16 years old and a four-year-old girl. His parents with his sister Wala, and brother Anatol, lived then in Solec Street. He hid Jews during the war, in winter of 1942/1943 - Henryk G. and his wife. In winter 1942 he got the job as an engineer in German enterprise constructing railway stations. After the war, his family moved to Nowolipki Street No. 15. In 1963 the children were already grown-up and were: engineer, doctor, MA in psychology.

  • Reminiscences from the occupation period written not chronologically. The author's return from German captivity in January 1940. The construction of the Warsaw wall ghetto. Stay on the 'Aryan side' since 1942 (incl. Wolomin). The ghetto uprising as seen from the outside. The great action in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, the author and his wife waited out in a hideout. The reminiscences submitted by the author to the Jewish Historical Institute in 1963.

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