Given name: Pola Perła Family name: Grynsztajn

  • YES
  • Female
  • Pola Perła
  • Grynsztajn
  • Kijewska
  • May 1943
  • Żelechów
  • Majdanek
  • No
  • From Warsaw
  • Old Town
  • Jewish
  • She lived with her family in Nowiniarska Street. In September 1939 she moved to Muranowska Street No. 7, flat 9. She lived there until 1941. Then she moved to Nalewki Street No. 23, to the house of her sister, Fela. At the beginning of the Action she hid with her family in Toebbens' shop. in August 1942 taken to the Umschlag, she lost her husband there (he was deported). She managed to escape from the Umschlag, she hid with her family in the house were the workers of Toebbens' shop lived, at Leszno Street No. 64. She worked in Schultz's tailor's shop in Nowolipie Street. During the round-up in Mila Street she hid with her daughter and niece at Mila Street No. 26, in the attic (she lost the life number that somebody gave her in Schultz's shop). During the uprising she hid in the bunker at Mila Street No. 3. In May 1943 deported to Majdanek. She died in a gas chamber, after the first selection of the transport.

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943, in the ghetto, deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • around the author
  • s.7, 21, 24, 27, 32, 37, 39, 42, 44, 58, 60, 87, 95