Given name: Unknown Family name: Lewy

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  • Lewy
  • an engineer, with his wife and daughter escaped from the Polish district, because they had been denounced, and earlier blackmailed many times; so finally they resigned from staying on the 'Aryan side'. On 20-21 April 1943 they hid in a bunker at Walowa Street No. 2. They got out from there when the ceiling fell down and fire got inside. Several dozen of people fought for access to the only exit. Several managed to escape, later the burning basement staircase ceiling fell down and the rest died. Lewy and his family survived and 24 April went to the bunker at Swietojerska Street No. 38; the daughter was burnt

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