Maria Kraft
I was born in Lwów into a well-to-do Jewish family. My father, Ignacy, had received a higher education and was employed by a bank. My mother, Lea, née Schmidt, was a housewife. The standard of living of my family was good, which provided me with the prospect of having a normal development. I was seven […]
Maria Kosowicz-Bartnik
I was born in Połaniec (Tarnobrzeg province) into a Jewish family. My parents, Chaja and Lejbuś Zylberg (it seems to me that Mama’s maiden name was also Zylberg), lived in Połaniec in the Market Square. They ran a textile store in their own home. They often traveled to Łódź, where they resupplied their merchandise at […]
Lena Kaniewska
I was born in Lwów. My father was a lawyer and worked as legal counsel in the State Employment Office in Lwów. I stayed in Lwów during almost the entire occupation, including the period from the winter of 1941 until the August action in the ghetto, in 1942. My parents perished in Lwów during the […]
Maria Kamińska
I was born and lived in Lwów before the war. My name was Ruta Linder. My parents, Sara and Sender Linder, were pharmacists. Several years before the war, they settled in Pomorzany where they worked in their own pharmacy. In 1939, my father, as an officer, was mobilized, fought in the defense of Lwów among […]
Joanna Kaltman
I was born in Warsaw. My father, Dr. Henryk Kaltman, was a health service physician in a hospital in the Solec district. My mother, Dr. Ewa Kaltman, worked in the Infant Jesus Hospital on Nowogrodzka Street, and the year before the war, in the municipal hospital in the Czyste district (_). I attended the A. […]
Krystyna Kalata-Olejnik
I was born in Warsaw, but my autobiography actually begins the moment I stepped out of a sewer canal onto the Aryan side during the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Sister Julia Sosnowska, no longer alive today, a nun from a nearby order on Nowolipie Street, was passing by near the canal. She spotted a […]
Jan Kac-Kaczyński
I was born in the small town of Bełz (Sokal district, Lwów province). I attended the second grade of elementary school in Bełz. My mother, Este Kac, née Slomer, was a housewife. My father, Józef Kac, finished high school in Sokal (together with Golda Meir). He was fluent in three languages and was universally held […]
Karolina Heuman
I was born in the town of Nowy Sącz, where my grandmother lived. My father, Zygmunt Salo Heuman, was a doctor. Mother, Łucja Heuman, née Degen, had completed studies in philosophy. I have lived in Kraków since my birth except for the war years. During that period, because of persecutions by the Nazi occupiers, my […]
Henryk Hajwentreger
From what I remember, I was born in Warsaw. I don’t know the date; it was determined based on a court decree. I was born on Ceglana Street in Warsaw. I lived with my parents on Dzielna Street. My grandparents lived on Pańska Street, but in Jeziorna, near Warsaw, they had their own house and […]
Jakub Gutenbaum
I was born in Warsaw. I had a brother who was three years younger. My parents, Aron and Rywa Gutenbaum, were teachers. Until September 1939, we lived in Warsaw at 42 Żelazna Street. In the winter of 1939, my father, fearing reprisal because he had engaged in labor union activities before the war, made his […]