plac Trzech Krzyży From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Midtown
  • plac Trzech Krzyży
  • Germans operations, help
  • Polish underground movement

  • At the Three Crosses Square at 11:45 Rolf Rechter with his translator was shot. He was a close friend of Sandra Brand. The Germans announced that he was shot by the Polish underground. In fact he co-operated with and worked for the Polish resistant movement and was successfully involved in rescuing the Jews. The Germans as a revenge sentenced 20 Poles to be executed on 3 August at 11:45 at this square.

  • Memoirs of a young wife and mother who was forced by war-time reality and her determination to survive decides to abandon her family and go to Warsaw. She describes her war-time experiences, her stay in occupied Warsaw, hiding under a Polish name on the 'Aryan side', and her close relationship with a German policeman, and, finally, the liberation and departure from Poland. She describes in detail the situation of a person in hiding, her everyday life, problems, fear, as well as her struggle to survive.

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