Aleksandra Berłowicz
I was born in the Jewish quarter in Warsaw at 21 Zamenhof Street, Apartment No. 3. It was precisely in this apartment (my father was also born there many years earlier) that the war found us. Later, this house came to be included within the confines of the ghetto which, at first, spared us the […]
Leszek Leon Allerhand
I come from a family of Jewish intellectuals which had a strong propensity toward assimilation. My father, Joachim Allerhand, had a law office in Lwów at 20 Jagiellońska Street together with his father, my grandfather Maurycy. At the same time, he held the position of Professor, with a chair in Civil Law, at Jan Kazimierz […]
Jerzy Aleksandrowicz
The day before the last great deportation from the Kraków Ghetto, a chimney sweep whom we knew built a tiled stove with hollow insides in our home at 25 Krakus Street. He removed all the internal parts of the stove so that someone could hide in it. But only I and one other person, on […]
Marianna Adameczek
Great pain remains with us after the loss of a loved one. And what may one say of the feelings of a nine-year-old child when her closest family of eight persons perishes in front of her eyes? This tragedy took place in the Serokomski Forest during a hunt for Jews hiding there. During the shooting, […]