Given name: Jurek Family name: Unknown

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  • Male
  • Jurek
  • 1936-05-10
  • 8-year-old son of a man who lived with Jerzy Pfefer. He had Semitic facial features. He reminded Jerzy of Ignas, and was his favourite. For safety reasons the documents said that his father was 'unknown'. His mother taught him not to give his name and surname, but the ones stated in the 'Aryan' certificate. His face was bandaged so that he could leave the city and go to the country. On his 8 birthday Jerzy Pfefer wrote his third poem for him.

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  • Jerzy Pfefer, born 1926, son of Abraham and Rozalia, Moja ucieczka z Majdanka (My escape from Majdanek). During the Warsaw ghetto uprising the author and his family were hiding in a shelter in Franciszkanska St.; after the shelter had been found, they were deported to Lublin. Selection in the concentration camp at Majdanek. Living conditions in the camp, tormenting prisoners, profiles of functionary prisoners. The author was assigned to work in the kitchen. Retrospection: reminiscences of his wife and son, murdered in Majdanek. Description of the great liquidation action of 1942. In June 1943, the author escaped from a work detail outside the camp and returned to Warsaw. His stay in various hideouts in Warsaw. Considerations on the detrimental character of religious disputes and the superiority of the Communist system. Complaints about Poles appropriating Jewish property. In 1945 the author submitted a copy to the Jewish Historical Commission in Lodz.

  • 91-93, 97-99