Diaries of Jews, 302/231, Jewish Historical Institute Archives; Title: The War from the Inside (Der Krieg von innen).

  • Sophie
  • Goetzel-Leviathan
  • memoir
  • there and then
  • German

  • The 302/231 diary in the Jewish Historical Institute Archives. The beginning of the occupation of Warsaw, anti-Jewish regulations (the author's husband was imprisoned for not wearing a Jewish arm-band). The life in the Warsaw Ghetto, the work at Schultz's shop. In January 1943 the author left the ghetto, in hiding in Konstancin and Milanowek, was hassled by blackmailers. Her husband and daughter were ina different hideout. In July 1943 the whole family signed up for the Polski Hotel affair in Warsaw. They were deported to a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. The description of the living conditions in the camp, the evacuation of the camp in April 1943, the liberation and her departure to Paris. The author came from a family of Polish Jews, who lived in Germany for some time. Before the war she studied in Paris. After the war she emigrated to Israel.