Hanka Grynberg
I was born in Warsaw as Chana Grynberg. My father, Hersz Lejb Grynberg, came from Płock. Born in 1903, he was the oldest son of Szlama Jakub and Dyna, née Winberg, Grynberg. There were a lot of children in our family. Father had six sisters and one brother. Only my father and two sisters, Henia […]
Maria Greber
I am the daughter of Max Binder and Irena, née Zuckerman. I was born in Warsaw and brought up in Krasnystaw, province of Lublin. When World War II broke out, I was living with my parents and two brothers in Krasnystaw at 25 Third of May Street. After the Germans entered Krasnystaw in 1939, my […]
Barbara Góra
I was born as Irena Hochberg in Warsaw into an assimilated family, not religious, but not cutting itself off from its Jewish roots or relatives who, on my mother’s side, were more or less Orthodox Jews. However, I knew neither Jewish customs nor the Yiddish language. My father, Wiktor Hochberg, was a self-employed electrotechnician, and […]
Michał Głowiński
Turkowice I arrived in Turkowice late in February 1944, during Lent. I write “during Lent” because there, the main measure of time was the church calendar. It was not my first stay with the nuns. Earlier, I had stayed briefly with the Felician Sisters in Otwock, and later, for even a shorter time, in Czersk. […]
Henryk Ryszard Gantz
I was born in Warsaw. My father, Stanisław Gantz, worked as an official in the Bank of Commerce. My mother, Halina, maiden name Hertz, took care of the administration of the apartment building which was owned by my grandparents at 22 Grażyna Street. My grandfather, Mieczysław, was a physician in the Berson-Bauman Hospital, and that […]
Karol Galiński
I was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Mosty Wielkie, formerly in the Lwów Province. Here is my family: father, Hersz Karg, mother, Sara, née Kuszer, sister, Freida, brother, Józef, another brother, Abraham, and myself, Naftali. I was the fourth and youngest child in the family. In September 1939, the Soviet […]
Jerzy Frydman
I was born in Błonie near Warsaw. My family was fairly large. In addition to parents and grandparents, I had two brothers, David and Josef, and two sisters, Małka and Fajga. When the war broke out, my oldest sister, Fajga, left with our uncle for the USSR. She was supposed to send us documents for […]
Jadwiga Fiszbain-Tokarz
I was born in Kraków into a Polish-Jewish family. My mother, Miłka Fiszbain, born in Budapest, was then twenty-five years old. Father, Tadeusz Wojciech Tokarz, lawyer, a captain in the Polish Army, older than Mother, came from the Tarnopol area. I do not know any more about Father. He was mobilized in 1939 and disappeared […]
Elżbieta Ficowska
I was born in the Warsaw Ghetto. This I know for certain. My birth certificate is a small silver spoon engraved with my name and birth date, a salvaged accessory of a salvaged child. Other than that, little is certain. I am trying to sort out scraps of information that I have been collecting for […]
Maria Feldhorn
I was born in Kraków where I lived before the war. My father, Juliusz Feldhorn, Doctor of Philosophy, poet, writer (pseudonym Jan Las), was a teacher of Polish language and literature in the Chaim Hilfstein Hebrew High School, located on Brzozowa Street. The maiden name of my mother, Stella, was Landy, but after her first […]