Given name: Tosia Family name: Altman

  • YES
  • Female
  • Tosia
  • Altman
  • 1943-05-24
  • Warszawa
  • Survival from the bunker at Mila Street No. 18. She hid with other fighters survived from the ghetto uprising in the celluloid film factory in Praga (in 11 Listopada Avenue). She had a suppurating wound on her forehead which she cured with ichthyol. It was in a form of a candle, which should be melted to ointment to put it on the wound. From the match the whole bag of celluloid went on fire in the attic. Seriously burnt Tosia (and Mania) were handed in by Polish policemen to the Germans, who took them to hospital, where they were not given any help. They died there, suffering terribly.

  • activists
  • Rufeisen-Schuepper, Helena; Pozegnanie Milej 18. Wspomnienia laczniczki Zydowskiej Organizacji Bojowej (A Farewell in Mila Street No. 18. Memoirs of a Messenger of the Jewish Fighting Organisation)

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