Given name: Jadwiga Family name: Weigman

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  • Female
  • Jadwiga
  • Weigman
  • Metta
  • Yes
  • Jewish

  • a native Hungarian; the wife of an attorney from Lvov; the 'Aryan' name - Metta; the only daughter was deported by the Germans for slave labour and there was no trace left of her; very sensitive and nervous; during the Warsaw Uprising she was with her husband in the tenement house of Adela Domanus thanks to the help of acquaintances - the Zaczek's (the clerk in Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego -BGK); she knitted in return for food during the Warsaw Uprisning. Later they moved with Adela's family to Krakow; Adela located Jadwiga at the sister's in Podgorze; after the war she returned with her husband to Warsaw.

  • The story of 5 people saved by Adela Domanus. A story of one Jewish girl. Brief description of the other four saved Jews. Life during the Warsaw Uprising. Expulsion of people from Warsaw to Cracow. Attached: a photograph of Inka, her father's letter to Adela of 1943, two Inka's letters of 1945 and a letter from Inka's mother from Bavaria of 1946. Written on 17 February 1966. Original, typescript, 13 pages, 210 x 295 mm., in Polish. <b>Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute </b>
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