Wołyńska From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Wołyńska
  • 17
  • deportation
  • social/communal
  • hideout
  • On the third floor in the second wing Henryk G. with his wife and acquaintances hid there in September 1942. It was enough to camouflage the doors. The doors to the new hideout led through a room with the floor covered with feathers up to the knees. They blocked the room with a cupboard, separating themselves from the rest of the house.

  • 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. Original, longhand, pp. 1-76, format 290 x 210 mm (notebook), in Polish.

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