Given name: Maurycy Family name: Orzech

  • YES
  • Male
  • Maurycy
  • Orzech
  • 1891-00-00
  • 1943

  • An activist of Jewish and Polish unions, a journalist; in the ghetto, a member of the Bund Central Committee. In July 1942, he left the closed district. Supposedly, in the middle of 1943, he tried to run away abroad; arrested in Kolomyja, transported do Warsaw, murdered in August 1943. According to different sources, he died in unexplained circumstances a year earlier - this version is confirmed by Basia Berman's memoirs.

  • Intelligentsia

  • The author started to write on 5 January 1944, and the last entry is dated 14 January 1945. The diary was written in ten, common, chequered school notebooks. Written irregularly. Bermanowa probably took a pen in her hand only when she either found the time or when she felt strong enough. Successive entries, dated scrupulously, written in Polish, were written in occupied Warsaw ('in hiding'), then in occupied ('free') capital and in a number of places near Warsaw (again 'on the Aryan papers'). The first event described took place during the Polish-German War of 1939, the latest - three days before the liberation of Warsaw (17 January 1945).

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