Given name: Ryszard Family name: Moszkowski

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  • Male
  • Ryszard
  • Moszkowski

  • author's first drawing teacher during the occupation; after the Warsaw Uprising's failure he hid together with his wife, a famous pianist, and six other people in Warsaw in a basement hideout prepared and camouflaged before; at the beginning of 1945 the hideout was given away by smoke leaking from the burning oven; Germans discovered the hideout effortlessly thanks to that; from then on they vanished into the blue.

  • Intelligentsia, around the author, hideout

  • Compiled on the basis of Anna Irena Trojanowska-Kaczmarska's text; pp. 127-129, (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia... (Children of the Holocaust Speak)

  • Several dozen of biographies and memoirs of Holocaust children in Poland, describing the reality of the occupation. Stories of the youngest witnesses of those events virtually from all over the country. they depict their daily struggle for survival, struggling with the occupier's terror, family tragedies and the deaths of their family members. Some of these testimonies even refer to pre-war times, while others to post-war years as well. These are biographies of those who stayed in Poland after the war. Two of them were sent from Israel.

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