Given name: Wiktoria Family name: Śliwowska

  • YES
  • Female
  • Wiktoria
  • Śliwowska
  • Łaska
  • 1931-00-00
  • 1931
  • Warszawa

  • Sara Fryszman and Jozef Laska's daughter. Until 1942 lived with her parents and numerous cousins at Elektoralna Street No. 5/7. Her mother taught secret classes, ran a kindergarten and a lending library there. After the liquidation of the 'small ghetto' moved to Chlodna Street, later to Leszno. After the beginning of the 'action' in the ghetto and her mother's sudden death, her cousins started making efforts to get her out to the 'Aryan side'. It was possible thanks to Zofia Korczak-Blantowa's help. She changed her place of residence several times under the name Wiktoria Zaleska, born in Lvov. Left Warsaw with her cousins on 8 October 1944. Was in a transit camp in Ursynow, later in Jaksice village in the Miechow district and in Siersza near Trzebinia right after the liberation. She finally met her father there.

  • Intelligentsia, survivors, hideout

  • Compiled on the basis of Wiktoria Sliwowska's text, pp. 119-126, (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia...(Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 1

  • Several dozen of biographies and memoirs of Holocaust children in Poland, describing the reality of the occupation. Stories of the youngest witnesses of those events virtually from all over the country. they depict their daily struggle for survival, struggling with the occupier's terror, family tragedies and the deaths of their family members. Some of these testimonies even refer to pre-war times, while others to post-war years as well. These are biographies of those who stayed in Poland after the war. Two of them were sent from Israel.

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