Maria Teresa Zielińska
I was born in Warsaw as Dora Borensztajn. My twin brother’s name was Mojżesz. We lived at 79 Żelazna Street, Apartment No. 12. Next door, at Number 81, my parents had a stationery and notions store. My father, Herszek Borensztajn, had been a widower. He had two sons and a daughter, Lonia. After the death […]
Sabina Wylot
I was born in Łódź. I lived on Śródmiejska Street with my mother, Bela, née Dawidowicz, father, Szaja Kleinlerer, and sister, Felicja. We had the extended family there, both the Dawidowiczes and the Kleinlerers. Late in the fall of 1939, or perhaps at the beginning of 1940, I don’t remember, we were forced to give […]
Stefan Wrocławski
I was born in Będzin. Father was Gabriel Leitner, and Mother, Maria, née Kleinehot. Until the outbreak of the war in 1939, I lived with my parents. I had finished five grades of elementary school. At the beginning of 1940, because we were of Jewish descent, we were moved from 24 Kołłątaj Street to 6 […]
Malwina Wollek
I was born in Drohobycz (at present in the Ukraine). I survived the period of German occupation together with my parents in Drohobycz. From 1941 until 1943, I was in the local ghetto there with my mother Chaja, née Roth, and my father, Benjamin Beck. Towards the end of 1941, the Germans took my father […]
Zygmunt Wolf
I was born in Lwów. My father, Jakub Wolf, was a salaried employee, and mother, Róża, née Sicher, taught in a high school. After the outbreak of the war, Father took part in combat in the ranks of the 26th Infantry Regiment and was wounded. After demobilization, he returned to Lwów and worked in a […]
Irena Wójcik
Here is an account of my fate. I do not remember anything from before the war. In 1941 or 1942, my parents handed me over to a certain woman who had no children of her own. She was an acquaintance of my parents, a Polish woman. She owned a grocery store as well as a […]
Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel
I was born (most likely) on February 28, 1943, in the ghetto in the town of Stare Święciany near Wilno. My first remembered image, as though in a dream, is very clear. In some spacious place, my mother at a window, bent over a pail, is cutting up boiled potatoes with a chopper, feed for […]
Anna Trojanowska-Kaczmarska
I was born in Warsaw. My parents, Felicja née Szlachtaub and Stanisław Trojanowski, were teachers in a public elementary school in Falenice on the outskirts of Warsaw. In this school, the majority of the pupils were Jewish children. Many of them emigrated to Palestine even before the war but continued correspondence with my father. Stanisław […]
Marek Teichmann
On the day the Second World War broke out, I was not quite three years old. My parents and I and numerous relatives lived in Tarnopol. After the invasion by the Soviet troops, we were deported to the small town of Mikulińce, where we lived in very modest circumstances. When the eastern territories of Poland […]
Marek Sznajderman
I was born in Warsaw. My father, Ignacy Sznajderman, was a doctor. In September 1939, while escaping from the Germans, my mother, Amelia, née Rozenberg, my younger brother, and I found ourselves in Złoczów. After the seventeenth of September, Złoczów, located in the Western Ukraine, was incorporated into the Soviet Union. After the outbreak of […]