Leszno From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Leszno
  • 78
  • in the ghetto
  • private life / daily life
  • housing

  • The author lived with his parents in one of the building's three annexes since October 1940. A factory (that probably belonged to Schultz) was in one of the other annexes. Compiled on the basis of Henryk Ryszard Gantz's text; pp. 54-55 (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.

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