Given name: Marek Family name: Balin

He studied medicine in France, in September 1939 he lived with his parents and siblings in Nowiniarska Street. Then he moved with his family to Muranowska Street No. 7, flat 9. He lived there until 1941. He worked in a Jewish hospital in Leszno Street, and made injections in private houses. He guided the learning of his younger sister (he taught her some of the subjects). In autumn 1942 he was employed in a work detail, dealing with floating wood in the Vistula river. In the winter of 1942 and 1943 he was employed in the 'Ursus' factory. When the uprising started, he went to fetch some food for his family, which hid in the bunker at Mila Street No. 3. He didn't manage to return to Mila Street before closing down the bunker. He hid in Nowolipie Street. Later on he jumped off a train going to Majdanek, and got injured. He returned to Warsaw. Until the end of the war he hid with a Polish woman, Jozefa Bartosiewicz. Strojwas paid for his upkeep.