Jews' Diaries; sygn. 302/239; Jewish Historical Institute Archives; title: Moja ucieczka z Majdanka (My escape from Majdanek)

Doctor Jerzy Kwiatkowski was Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance from Warsaw. A political prisoner. Consoled and fed Jerzy P...

A Jew, a pharmaceutical wholesaler from Warsaw.

He comes from Rawicz. He is in the party. Jerzy Pfefer gets from him his ID but is cheated by him by paying advance...

Educationalist, publicist, writer, doctor. He was the head of the orphanage whose foster children were killed in Tre...

Urzędnik skarbowy, vice-naczelnik Urzędu Skarbowego w Warszawie. Jerzy Pfefer przekazał mu towar za znaczną sumę pie...

A poet of Jewish origin, one of the most popular poets of the inter-war period.

For a short period of time he was a block leader of the block where Jerzy Pfefer lived. The author described him as...

A Jew, block leader, writer and kitchen helper.

A doctor, a Jew, worked with Jerzy Pfefer in a kitchen. An ex-member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm).

A Jew, worked with Jerzy Pfefer in a kitchen in Majdanek. A long-standing cantor of the Warsaw Synagogue.

a Polish poet, columnist, playwright, satirist, theatre critic and a worker for voluntary causes; of Jewish descent.

Jerzy Pfefer's father. He is 56 years old. He has two children with his second wife - Jerzy's stepmother. He dies in...

Jerzy Pfefer's stepmother, wife of his father. During the First Action she was hospitalised in Leszno Street, becaus...

Jerzy Pfefer's wife, mother of his child. She came from Russia, she was born in Novgorod. An attractive, sociable, i...

Jerzy Pfefer's son. He had beautiful, blue eyes and delicately shaped, purple lips. He died in a gas chamber with hi...

An author of the diary. During the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the author and his family hid in the shelter in Franciszk...

Thirteen-year-old son of Jerzy Pfefer's father and stepmother. Transported to Treblinka with his sixteen-year-old si...

Sixteen-year-old daughter of Jerzy Pfefer's father and stepmother. Transported to Treblinka with her brother. Jerzy...

a policeman - Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance, who helped him to leave Parysowski Square with Ignas.

A Polish writer, political publicist, intelligence officer, soldier of Armia Krajowa (the Home Army). In prison he w...

Jerzy Pfefer's mother.

A Jew, renowned social activist in Lodz; he had two sons; he was the son in law of the Secretary Budzyner.

Wegmajster's son who was with his father in the camp in Majdanek.

The second son of Webmajster; imprisoned with his father in the camp in Majdanek.

Together with her little daughter shortly before the last Action they crossed to the 'Aryan side'.

Zamężna, młodsza, 25-letnia siostra Jerzego Pfefera. W czasie wybuchu ostatniej akcji znalazła się w domu Pfeferów p...

Married, Jerzy Pfefer's older, 28-year-old sister. The day before the Action she came to the Pfefers house from Schu...

A Jew, the head of the barrack where Jerzy Pfefer lived. 'A shady character,' 'a gangrenous character,' 'looked like...

Froschlich's friend. A Czech, a manager of a kitchen.

A 12-year-old Jew. Came from Poland, the Germans liked him and trained him. 'Mercilessly beat up the prisoners.' The...

A Pole with whom Jerzy Pfefer worked in a kitchen in the camp in Majdanek.

A Jew, his sister was in hiding on the 'Aryan side' in Warsaw.

Julek's sister.

Jerzy Pfefer's sister-in-law. Got a 'life card' from him thanks to which she could leave Parysowski Square.

Called out the names of the people who could leave Parysowski Square.

Jerzy Pferfer's brother-in-law. Managed to leave Parysowski Square. There were not enough 'life cards' so he did not...

A Pole, the director of a shop.

A doctor. Advised Jerzy Pfefer to give Ignas his own blood when he suffered from ulcers.

German 'female beasts' with whips in their hands. Used to beat up their victims.

Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintances, via whom he received the letter from his sisters when he was in a camp.

Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintances. They leave Majdanek camp to work in a sawmill near Lublin. At nights they go back to t...

Man, a German who runs a work detail that leaves Majdanek to work in a sawmill near Lublin. He took 500 zlotys from...

Wagoners who delivered food to camp. They mediated in passing the notes- secret messages smuggled into and out of pr...

Jerzy Pfefer's mate from camp in Majdanek. He sold him his linen trousers in exchange for a kilogram of flour and a...

Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintances from camp, he works with them in the kitchen.

SS officer who assigns people to watching sawmill workers. Jerzy Pfefer takes the opportunity and escapes to the str...

Ukrainian appointed by SS officer to watch sawmill workers.

Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance from sawmill who is superior to him.

A person whose ID is checked by SS-man in a sawmill.

SS-man whom Jerzy Pfefer passes when he escapes from the sawmill.

Dziewczynka chodzi do szkoły na Krakowskim Przedmieściu.

Jerzy Pfefer's customer, Jerzy goes to his shop at Krakowskie Przedmiescie after he escapes from the sawmill. Curren...

Camp officer who carries out camp selections. Jerzy Pfefer meets him at Krakowskie Przedmiescie in Lublin after he e...

A gendarme who, at Krakowske Przedmiescie in Lublin, checks ID of people who want to get to highway.

a gendarme

a policeman

Policeman, at Krakowskie Przedmiescie in Lublin he checks ID of people who want to get to highway.

On 23 June 1943 a man receives Jerzy Pfefer in his house so that he can take some rest on his way from Lublin to War...

An old lady who warns Jerzy Pfefer on his way from Lublin to Warsaw against gendarmes who search people and check th...

a driver

the man who checked Jerzy Pfefer's documents on his way to Warsaw.

A man who checks Pfefer's ID on his way to Warsaw.

Young man who advises Jerzy Pfefer against going by train from Garwolin to Otwock because of gendarmes who check peo...

A policeman who rides a bike near Garwolin and he passes Jerzy Pfefer.

Policeman, he rides a bike near Garwloin and passes Jerzy Pfefer.

A man who asks Jerzy Pfefer on the railway in Swider where from and where to he goes.

Caretaker, Jerzy Pfefer meets her in Miedzeszyn.

A caretaker in a villa in Miedzeszyn, whom Jerzy Pfefer met.

Caretaker of villa in Miedzeszyn, Jerzy Pfefer stays at his place. During drinking bout with policemen he tells them...

Caretaker's children who do not recognise Jerzy Pfefer.

Aryan, Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance to whom Pfefer sends a caretaker from Miedzeszyn with a letter. The man comes to...

Neighbor of the caretaker of villa in Miedzeszyn, she looked into the room where Jerzy Pfefer lay on bed.

Miedzeszyn's village council chair.

Policeman in Miedzeszyn, armed he enters the caretaker's villa

Late son of caretaker from Miedzeszyn, from her first marriage. Jerzy Pfefers uses his soldier's ID when village cou...

Policeman who checks Jerzy Pfefer's ID in caretaker's villa in Miedzeszyn.

Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance, 'Aryan', with his help Jerzy Pfefer makes an unsuccessful attempt to join the party.

Customer, at his place Jerzy Pfefer stays in Warsaw.

A Jew, Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance who helps him in Warsaw.

A Jew, Jerzy Pfefer's friend, who advised him not to give material help after consulting his lawyer. He had a son.

Barrister of Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance, Jew, who advises against helping Jerzy.

Son of Kazimierz, Jewish acquaintance, who rejects to help Jerzy Pfefer.

Jerzy Pfefer's friend, he stayed at his place.

an 'Aryan' German woman at whose place Jerzy Pfefer lives with four other Jews. She comes from Leipzig. She has two...

Warsaw Jewish man, Jerzy Pfefer finds room at his place. The man left Poland when he was thirteen years old and he w...

Father of a Jew at whose place Jerzy Pfefer lives in Warsaw. During the First Action he was in Leipzig.

Eight year old son of 'Aryan' German woman and Warsaw Jew at whose place Jerzy Pfefer lives in Warsaw.

Eleven year old son of 'Aryan' German woman and Warsaw Jew at whose place Jerzy Pfefer lives in Warsaw.

Barrister who together with Jerzy Pfefer lives at the place of 'Aryan' German woman and Warsaw Jew. After they move...

He comes from Bedzin. During the war he came to Warsaw. In 1943 Polish agents traced him in the street. He did not h...

School friend of Jerzy Pfefer's younger sister. During the First Action she was taken to the Umschladgplatz. She and...

A woman died at the Umschlagplatz when she asked SS-man to release her.

Husband of a school friend of Jerzy Pfefer's younger sister. He crossed with his wife and brother-in-law to the 'Ary...

Brother-in-law of school friend of Jerzy Pfefer's younger sister. He crossed to the 'Aryan side'. He worked in the P...

Widow of late Jew. Mother of three children. She was born in Lodz, has a German nationality. She married in Evangeli...

A Jewish man, husband of a woman at whose place Jerzy Pfefer and a barrister live. He died of a heart attack during...

Młody Żyd, który mieszka z Jerzym Pfeferem u młodej wdowy. Był w obozie w Treblinkach, gdzie został przydzielony do...

Together with Jerzy Pfefer's friend he jumped off the train carrying men to Concentration camp. He died shot by SS-m...

A Jewish man, doctor. Polish people at whose place he lived incited some thugs who killed him in the ghetto ruins.

8-year old violinist, talented boy who died in Treblinka after he was deported there by the SS-man Brandt

the policeman who wants to punish Jerzy Pfefer for not wearing an armband but after Pfefer shows old ID policeman do...

the policeman whom Jerzy Pfefer told about alleged theft of the furs.

An 'Aryan' woman to whom Zgierska brought furs belonging to Jerzy Pfefer's sister. She promised revenge on Zgierska...

A Jewish man, husband of an 'Aryan' woman. Jerzy Pfefer's sister kept furs, brought by Zagierska, at the woman's pla...

Klient Jerzego Pfefera, znajomy Wiktorii Zgierskiej, u którego przechowywał futra. Gdy Jerzy chciał odzyskać swoje r...

Jerzy Pfefer and other Jews live at this woman's place. She has to pay "ransom' ('szmalcowe') to a blackmailer-...

Jerzy Pfefer's housekeeper. For some time she lived in the flat of the friend of woman at whose place Jerzy lived. S...

Jerzy Pfefer's housekeeper, who lived at the place of friend of a woman whose flat Pfefer lived in.

Przyjaciółka małżeństwa u którego mieszka Jerzy Pfefer. Widząc, jak się bogacą na ukrywaniu Żydów, wysyła anonim i n...

Wife of a Jew who hid together with Jerzy Pfefer at the place of 'Aryan' German woman and Warsaw Jew.

Young, handsome man who lives together with Jerzy Pfefer at an 'Aryan' German woman's. He got to the flat recommende...

Acquaintance of an 'Aryan' German woman in whose flat Pfefer lives. On her recommendation a young man looking for a...

A woman who lived with Jerzy Pfefer's young friend. Later she moved out and in the new place she was robbed by the P...

Żona znajomego Jerzego Pfefera z którym mieszka. Ma wygląd aryjski. Mieszka oficjalnie jako Polka. Z powodu dziecka,...

8-year-old son of a man who lived with Jerzy Pfefer. He had Semitic facial features. He reminded Jerzy of Ignas, and...

A Creole, when asked if he could play the piano, said: 'I think so, but I haven't tried it yet.'

Housekeeper, Jerzy lives at her place, mother of three children.

A Jew, a doctor, surgeon and engineer from Warsaw.

A barrister. Had a wife. Crossed to the 'Aryan side' with her just in time.

Barrister nikodem Goldsztajn's wife. Crossed to the 'Aryan side' with her husband just in time.

A banker. Lived in Wierzbowa Street in Warsaw.

A Jew, Unger's friend from chambers. The author described him as a scumbag, scoundrel and torturer, wished him death.

Webmajster's father-in-law.

Nikodem Goldsztajn's brother-in-law.

Owned a shop. Had three children.

an SS-man; the main executor of the Jewish massacre in Warsaw; he sent an 8-year-old talented violinist to death to...

During the first deportation action in 1942 served the Germans in return for little sums of money. Deported to Majda...

Gassed while having a bath, Jerzy Pfefer's father died with him.

A Jew, owned the 'Tibra' company.

A Pole, she worked in the enterprise of Jerzy Pfefer and his father for many years. Jerzy Pfefer during the occupati...

A Jew, an engineer. His wife jumped out of a wagon. He suspects that she was living among the 'Aryans' in Warsaw.

Czech, Norman's friend, a kitchen Vorarbeiter. Murders that he committed were imprinted in Jerzy Pfefer's mind.

Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance; he and his wife left their furs to be stored at his place during the war, the furs were...

Teofil Drewnowski's wife; Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance, at whose place he left furs to be stored during the war; the...

the hospital were Jerzy Pfefer's stepmother stays

Testowy rekord do użycia w trakcie eksportu i opracowywania bazy

Jerzy Pfefer gets here with a ten year old girl after the escape from the work detail. He searches for his customer'...

There is a shop of Jerzy Pfefer's acquaintance where he goes after running away from the sawmill.

The cafe 'Jutrzenka'.

Jerzy Pfefer together with his family are there during the First Action; by using a trick they manage to leave the s...

concentration camp in Majdanek

A shop, where 600 selected people came to work.

a district outside the ghetto, not included to the 'Aryan side'; there war Jerzy Pfefer's younger, 25-year-old siste...

extermination camp

A sawmill, where men from the labour camp in Majdanek worked. It was surrounded from three sides with a field. Guard...

Synthetic rubber factory, where 'the workers dropped like flies'.

A street surrounding a sawmill, where Jerzy Pfefer escaped.

In this street Jerzy Pfefer met a 10-year-old girl, with whom he went to Krakowskie Przedmiescie.

Pfefer traveled down this road from Lublin to Warsaw.

A cottage, where Pfefer stopped on his way from Lublin to Warsaw. A strange man welcomed him with bread and water.

A town, where Jerzy Pfefer came while escaping from enemy on 7 September 1939. He also came there on 22 June 1943, o...

Jerzy Pfefer came to this town on 23 June 1943. He met there a young man, who adviced him not to go to Otwock by rai...

A town, where Jerzy Pfefer came on 23 June 1943.

A villa next to the station, where Jerzy Pfefer stayed with a caretaker.

A town, where the husband and wife who accomodated Jerzy Pfefer came in 1938.

All Jews who had to run away from Warsaw died there.

Gross-Rosen. Men were sent there after closing down the camp in Majdanek.

A female concentration camp in Ravensbruck.

The banker Golbfisz lived there.