Given name: Roman Family name: Szwarc

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  • Male
  • Roman
  • Szwarc
  • 1942

  • Lucja Szwarc's father. until autumn 1939 lived in Poznan. Then he was deported with his wife to Ostrow Lubelski. Arrested and tortured by the Gestapo before the deportation.

  • around the author

  • The beginning of the occupation in Warsaw. Ghetto formation, starvations, epidemic. Deportations to the death camp. The author left the ghetto for the 'Aryan side' on two occasions, but was unable to find shelter. Work in a shop, successful escape from the ghetto (April 1943). Her stay with her friends in Warsaw (temporarily in Klembow), the Warsaw uprising, deportation. The author was in Kielce when liberation came. She was the wife of a doctor fro Kalisz; during the occupation she used the names Janina Dabrowska and Janina Jaran. Original, longhand, pp. 1-12, format: 290 x 210 mm, in Polish. Copy: typewritten manuscript, pp. 1-10, format: 290 x 210 mm.

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