Nowolipie From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Nowolipie
  • before formation of the ghetto
  • German operations
  • Germans, terror

  • Jews were brought to houses in this street; they were told to dance, sing songs and tear out each other's hair, bump head against head, kneel and whip one another until they bled, run and while they were running dogs were set on them

  • 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: Pamietniki 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) [Stanislaw Sznapman]

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