Given name: Halina Family name: Birenbaum

She attended an elementary school in Warsaw. In September 1939 she lived with her parents and brothers in Nowiniarska Street. She moved to Muranowska Street No. 7, flat 9, and lived there until the deportation. In the ghetto she learned from her brother Marek and a teacher, Ms. Estera. During the Action she lived with her parents at Nalewki Street No. 23, then she hid in Toebbens' shop. In August 1942 she was caught and taken to the Umschlag. She managed to escape, and she hid with her family in the house where the workers of Toebbens' shop lived, at Leszno street No. 64. During the round-up in Mila Street she hid at Mila Street No. 26, in the attic. During the uprising she hid in the bunker at Mila Street No. 3. Deported in May 1943 to Majdanek. Then she was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Neustadt - Glewe. She lived to see the liberation.