Given name: L Family name: Bakauer

Before the war he lived with his mother and siblings in Warsaw in Furmanska Street. His father died few years before the war. Mother was a dressmaker, she earned a living for three children. L. and his brother attended a Polish school. They had to move to the ghetto, the mother sold out their belongings. Starvation began. A neighbour who had a friend in the Centos (Central Organization for Orphan Care) arranged admitting the children to a half-boarding school.