Sophie and Janina are doing everything they ca...

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  • Sophie and Janina are doing everything they can to help David. Eventually they find a lawyer who agrees to help. Sophie also visits Miss Demske, who works in the General Trustee's office for Jewish Property in Occupied Warsaw. She has friends in the Gestapo and promises to help as well.

  • 1940-09-04
  • 1940-09-04
  • before formation of the ghetto
  • private life / daily life
  • Germans, prison
  • The memories of David Gilbert are written by Tim Shortridge and Michael D. Frounfelter.

  • 72-73
  • Related people:

    • Goetzel Sophie

      She came from a Polish- Jewish family, living for some time in Germany. Before the war she studied in France, where...

    • Jabłońska Janina

      The German Commissar; persuades her boss to hire David Gilbert as a translator.

    • Demske Unknown

      She works in the office of the Chief Trustee for Jewish Property in Occupied Warsaw.