Given name: Hanna Family name: Borensztejn

  • YES
  • Female
  • Hanna
  • Borensztejn

  • Her 8-month-old daughter died on 15 December 1941. She cut off her leg, roasted it and ate it on the spot. She was arrested and released after a doctor stated that she is not a threat to other people.

  • The diary contains information about different aspects of life in the Warsaw ghetto: internal imprisonment in the ghetto, obligatory disinfection, activity of Gestapo agents (so-called the 'Thirteen') and entrepreneurs Kon and Heller, resettlements of people from the provinces, activity of house committees, social stratification of the ghetto population, food smuggling, furs confiscation, diminution of the ghetto borders, exhibitions, plays, resettlement of the Gypsies to the ghetto. Informative fragments interweave with belles-lettres narration describing personal experiences.

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