Kawęczyńska From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Praga
  • Kawęczyńska
  • at the end of the street, nearby terminus and embankment
  • in an apartment
  • in the Ghetto
  • help
  • housing assistence

  • the Piotrowski family lived in the tenement house. Michal Piotrowski- head of the family, 40 years old, together with his wife Nina, children- three boys aged from 10 to 16, and a little 4 year old girl. The flat had two rooms and a kitchen. In winter 1942/ 1943 they hid there Henryk G. and his wife.

  • 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.

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