Franciszkańska From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Midtown
  • Franciszkańska
  • 25
  • deportation
  • social/communal
  • pharmacies, atmosphere, trade, death

  • a pharmacy storehouse, Henryk G.'s neighbour was its owner; on learning about the deportation of Jews 22 July 1942 she committed suicide

  • 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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