Given name: Adam Family name: Starkopf
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- Male
- Adam
- Starkopf
- 1914-00-00
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When the war outbroke he is married for three years. He is earning a good salary as the office manager and chief accountant of a leather goods factory in Warsaw.
Together with his family he manages to escape the ghetto. For two years he lives as an Aryan, using false papers.
After the end of the war, he leaves with his family for Palestine.
Quirk of fate takes them to the United States.
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Related sources:
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- Adam is wounded by a small piece of shrapnel. A medic amputates hi... 1939-09-15 ,
- After 6 weeks of absence, Adam arrived in Warsaw. There, he finds... 1939-10-20 ,
- Adam and Pela have nothing to eat. Pela's father extracts his gold... 1940 ,
- Adam and his family are lucky, because there house is located in t... 1940-10 ,
- Jasia - Adam and Pela's daughter is born. The baby is in good cond... 1941-01-14 ,
- Adam is feeling badly, he has a fever and a sore throat. The docto... 1941 ,
- People longed for a normal social life, so neighbors who lived in... 1941 ,
- Adam is transferred to the jail on Gęsia street. There are eightee... 1942-02 ,
- Most of the time Adam and his cellmates are too depressed to talk.... 1942-02 ,
- Adam wakes up due to the tramp of heavy boots. SS enter the prison... 1942-06 ,
- Adam decides that he, Pela and Jasia will leave the ghetto first.... 1942 ,
- There was only one way to escape the ghetto with an infant who cou... 1942 ,
- Adam's parents and neighbors think that Adam's plan to leave the g... 1942-07 ,
- The night before the escape nobody can sleep. Adam's father and Pe... 1942-07-30 ,
- Adam made arrangements with a distant relative, called Michael to... 1942-07 ,
- Little did Adam know than that only a few days after their escape... 1942-07 ,
- Jasia had been taken earlier to the apartment of Adam's friends so... 1942-07-31 ,
- Pela passes the cemetery gates thanks to the bribed guard. Adam ob... 1942-07-31 ,
- Two days after their arrival in Lochow, Adam finds a place for him... 1942-08 ,
- Stumbling through the streets of Warsaw, Adam suddenly hears someo... 1942-08-06 ,
- It turns out that Max, an old friend of Adam's is hiding in Maria'... 1942-08-06 ,
- Adam is approached by two blackmailers on the street. But they hav... 1942-08-06 ,
- Pela falls into despair. Adam is afraid that she may loose her min... 1942-08 ,
- Adam meets Christina in Warsaw. She was a maid of a Jewish family... 1942-08 ,
- Jasia is very sick. Pela decides to take her to Warsaw, to dr. Sta... 1942-10 ,
- The Starkopfs become close friends with the Radziejewski family. 1942 ,
- Pela and Adam are awakened by bursts of machine-gun fire. On the r... 1943-01 ,
- The train leaves. The Rukats knock on Adam's door. They want him t... 1943-01 ,
- It turns out that Lieberbauer is also Jewish. He gave Adam his adv... 1943 ,
- Adam goes to the town hall and throws his papers on the clerks des... 1943 ,
- Lieberbauer receives a note with a warning that the Gestapo is loo... 1943 ,
- Mr.Zielinski visits the Starkopfs. He is drunk. He tells them that... 1943-10 ,
- Edward advises Adam to move out from Sadowne and part with Pela an... 1943-12 ,
- The Starkopfs move to Bialki, a village just outside Siedlce. Adam... 1944 ,
- Adam and Pela hug each other. They cry, but this time those are te... 1944-07-14 ,
- The Starkopfs move to Lublin. There they lived in a Red Cross shel... 1944-08 ,
- Adam and Pela go to the synagogue, fo the first time since the war... 1944-12 ,
- Ewa i Marian Rokacz, Strakopf's old friends invite them to Lodz. T... 1945 ,
- The Starkopfs leave fot Palestine with a group of other Jews. 1945-10 ,
- Mrs. dembitzers offers the Starkopfs to leave to the United States... 1946-04 ,
- The Starkopfs arrive in New York. ' I can't believe it, we're in A... 1946-05-23 ,
- Pela and Adam return to Warsaw, to their parents. Everyone is over... 1940-01-01 ,
- Adam has to earn a living. His work place has been bombed. He deci... 1940 ,
- One day Adam i cought in a 'Jew hunt'. He is forced to clear away... 1940-02 ,
- The Germans loot Adam's store. They take everything that's inside.... 1940 ,
- Adam and Pela manage to pass to the part of Poland, which is occup... 1939 ,
- Jasia gives Adam and Pela the strength to live. She is six months... 1941 ,
- Pela is undernourished, so Adam decides to make the 'trips' to the... 1941 ,
- Adam is expecting the worst, when a miracle happens. The SS-men co... 1942-02-12 ,
- Adam is summoned to the interrogation room, were a Polish policema... 1942-04-14 ,
- It turns out that Slivinsky had obtained Adam's release by a trick... 1942-04 ,
- Adam is taken to the Gestapo station were a 'interrogation' takes... 1942-05-09 ,
- Adam znowu trafia do więzienia. Nowym sposobem tortur jest przypad... 1942-05 ,
- In prison the daily executions continue. Adam resigns himself to t... 1942 ,
- Adam is a witness to a street blockade. He hides in an entrance of... 1942 ,
- Adam receives his new identification papers. His new name is Adam... 1942 ,
- In the evening Edward, his wife and Adam leave the ghetto through... 1942-07-31 ,
- Adam climbs over the partition to the Jewish cemetery and meets Pe... 1942-07-31 ,
- The burial ground caretaker helped Adam, Pela and Jasia climb over... 1942-07-31 ,
- Galewscy and the Starkopfs enter the streetcar. They pretend not t... 1942-07-31 ,
- Adam leaves for Warsaw to get his and Pela's parents out of the gh... 1942-08-05 ,
- Adam finds a job in a lumberyard in the town of Sadowne. They move... 1942 ,
- The local Polish police receives orders to register every individu... 1943 ,
- Adam is hired by Mr. Kniazew as a supervisor to the workers on the... 1944-04 ,
- Adam's father tries to kill himself, with gas. Pela finds him unco... 1942-01-02 ,
- During his trip to the Aryan side, Adam is caught by the Gestapo.... 1942-02-12 ,
- Gestapo take Adam to a torture room. It reminds Adam of the storie... 1942-02-12 ,
- Astmuss calls Adam into his office. He is drunk and indignant. He... 1944-03 ,
- Adam succeeds in obtainig work permits for himself and his family. 1942 ,
- A small, dead boy is lying on the street, his head had been smashe... 1942 ,
- A boy of 12, Adam's mother's sister's son has gone missing. Adam s... 1942 ,
- Adam is determined to complete his preparations for their escape f... 1942 ,
- Dressed as a helper of a cemetery employee, Adam goes back into th... 1942-08-06 ,
- Adam enters the apartment, the doors are open, there is no one ins... 1942-08-06 ,
- After a couple of hours Adam gathers the strength to leave the apa... 1942-08-06 ,
- Christina feels lonely in Warsaw, so Adam offers her to move in wi... 1942-08 ,
- Adam's body is covered with painful boils. He goes to Warsaw to dr... 1942 ,
- Adam gets a promotion, he is assigned to a supervisory job. He has... 1943-02 ,
- Astmuss orders Adam to deliver some documents to the Gestapo headq... 1943 ,
- Jasia developes tuberculosis. It is an early stadium and Jasia has... 1943 ,
- Adam razem z żoną i swoimi rodzicami słuchają radia dzień i noc. A... 1939-09 ,
- Adam gets an order to report to his recruiting station. But he is... 1939-09-02 ,
- Adam feels responsible for his and Pela's family. They try to shar... 1941 ,
- Adam jest odprowadzany do głównej siedziby polskiej policji przez... 1942-02-13 ,
- Adam zostaje zamknięty w celi w siedzibie policji trzeciej dzielni... 1942-02-13 ,
- Adam meets Michael in the Jewish cemetery. Michael is going to bri... 1942-08-05 ,
- Hours pass and there is still no sight of Adam's family. Adam hear... 1942-08-05 ,
- One of the cemetery employees runs up to Adam - ' Did you here the... 1942-08-06 ,
- Adam feels the blood drain from his face. What about his father, w... 1942-08-06 ,
- Adam and Pela manage to run away from a German 'manhunt' on a mark... 1942 ,
- Lieutenant Slivinsky visits Adam in his cell. He asks him several... 1942-02-14 ,
- Adam emerges in the prison courtyard and sees human bodies, which... 1942-07 ,
- Adam takes advantage of the chaos and the fact that he is still we... 1942-07 ,
- Adam can't stay at home, because he expects the Gestapo to be look... 1942-07 ,
- Early in the afternoon Pela and Adam bid their parents farewell. T... 1942-07-31 ,
- The Starkopfs move into one room with a stove, in a cottage belong... 1942-08 ,
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- Gestapo przyjeżdża po Adama. Pela zaczyna obrzucać ich wyzwiskami... 1942-05-09 ,