Given name: Sara Family name: Łaska

  • YES
  • Female
  • Sara
  • Łaska
  • Fryszman
  • 1942-08-31
  • 31 August 1942
  • Łódź
  • Warszawa
  • No
  • From Warsaw
  • Midtown
  • Jewish
  • good
  • higher
  • on surface
  • other danger, in an apartment, homicide

  • Prof. Antoni Boleslaw Dobrowolski's assistant at the Free Polish University. After the formation of the ghetto taught private classes with her husband and cousins, ran a kindergarten with Stefania Wartmanowna and a lending library in her own house. For the children in her school she organised a puppet theatre, which performed in front of other inhabitants. Tried to distract her pupils from the tragic reality by filling their spare time to the maximum with various activities. After the liquidation of the small ghetto moved from Elektoralna Street to Chlodna Street, subsequently to Leszno Street. She was shot there during one of the 'actions'.

  • in the ghetto, deportation
  • social/communal, private life / daily life
  • atmosphere, children, Intelligentsia, teachers, care / social welfare, schools, death, Ukrainians, around the author, accidents, deportation, everyday life, private life, Jews

  • Compiled on the basis of Wiktoria Sliwowska's text; pp. 119-126, (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia... (Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 1

  • Several dozen brief biographies and reminiscences of the children of the Holocaust which describe the reality of the occupation. Stories of the youngest eye-witnesses from all over the country. They describe their daily struggle for survival, resistance to the occupier's terror, family tragedies, deaths of family members. Some testimonies deal with the pre-war times, others with post-war days. Brief biographies of those who mainly stayed in Poland after the war. Two of them were sent from Israel.

  • 124-125