Memories

Memories are available under the “search memory” tab. You can select them from the drop-down list or enter first or last name of a person you search in the empty field. All reports are in the form of text, some additionally contain photos and videos, which is indicated by the numbers and cross-references above the person’s name. Clicking on a number or link takes you to alternative text, video, photo gallery or an external website. Videos are additionally available under the “video recordings” tab. You can also listen to dozens of memories – the texts are read by actors. Memories will be added successively.

Maria Kowalska – “In June 1941 we found ourselves in the Vilnius ghetto. My mother, certain of death, driven to work outside the ghetto, took me and handed me over to the nanny at the agreed place. The German convoying the Jews turned away his head. It was in October 1941. “

Teresa Lisiewska – “I remember that on my way from Warsaw I got bread with butter, I did not know the taste of butter. I nibbled on my bread and wanted to eat the butter for dessert, but it melted in my little hands. It was the second tragedy for me after the loss of my Jewish parents in the ghetto.”

Joanna Sobolewska-Pyz – “I was playing sitting on the floor when they came in. “This is your mummy and your daddy” – said Mrs. Wanda, and I was very happy – my new mother was beautiful, made-up, colorful, I liked my father too, although a little less. “

Jakub Gutenbaum – “On my way, I passed a dozen or so bodies every day, terribly thin, naked, with newspapers covered with newspapers, and swollen and ulcerated legs sticking out from under them. There were especially many children among the dead. “

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The exhibition
on the web

A month after the opening of the exhibition “My Jewish Parents, My Polish Parents”, its digital version was created to go online: moirodzice.org.pl. On this website you can read in three languages the stories of Jewish children saved in Polish homes and watch an animation containing an original voices of the reminiscents. This publication initiated the digital publication of the memories collected so far in the volumes “Children of the Holocaust Speak”.