Given name: Julian Family name: Tuwim

Jerzy Pfefer, born in 1926. Abraham and Rozalia's son. My escape from Majdanek. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising the author and his family were in hiding in the shelter in Franciszkanska Street, after the Germans discovered the shelter they were deported to Lublin. A selection in Majdanek. Living conditions in Majdanek, abuse of prisoners, descriptions of prisoners who cooperated with Germans in the camp. The author was sent to work in the kitchen. A flashback: memories of his wife and son, who were killed in Majdanek. A description of the great liquidation action of 1942. In June 1943 the author escaped from a work detail located outside the camp and came back to Warsaw. Stayed in hideouts in Warsaw. Reflects on perils of religious disputes and on the superiority of the communist regime. Complaints on Poles who appropriates Jewish property. The author gave a copy of the diary to the Jewish Historical Commission in Lodz in 1945.