Given name: Unknown Family name: Wasowska

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  • Female
  • Wasowska
  • Later on the author and Mikolaj met at Zurawia Street No. 24, at Samsonowicz's. The housekeeper (a Pole - Mrs. Wasowska) also took part in underground activities, allowed for the meetings to be held at her place. Her flat became the main meeting place for various leaders of both Polish and Jewish underground. Only a definite number of messengers could come there at a fixed time and only when the message was urgent. Some of the illegal documents were hidden under the floor, the recess was used as a safe for the money sent from e.g. London.This meeting place operated for the year that followed the uprising in the ghetto until the end of the Warsaw Uprising.

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