Given name: Olek Family name: Unger

  • YES
  • Male
  • Olek
  • Unger
  • Łódź

  • During the first deportation action in 1942 served the Germans in return for little sums of money. Deported to Majdanek instead of Treblinka. A member of the 'Order Commission' in Warsaw. Being a writer he held the highest office in the chancery. Accepted bribes in return for promotions. Helped Jerzy Pfefer get a job at a timber mill near Lublin.

  • activists, around the author, Poles

  • According to Jerzy Pfefer, he was the most responsible man. Had fond memories of him. He had a good character. Helpful. Did not use a whip. Jerzy had much fonder memories of him than of any of his friends, he called him 'an angel of life.'

  • Jerzy Pfefer, born 1926, son of Abraham and Rozalia, Moja ucieczka z Majdanka (My escape from Majdanek). During the Warsaw ghetto uprising the author and his family were hiding in a shelter in Franciszkanska St.; after the shelter had been found, they were deported to Lublin. Selection in the concentration camp at Majdanek. Living conditions in the camp, tormenting prisoners, profiles of functionary prisoners. The author was assigned to work in the kitchen. Retrospection: reminiscences of his wife and son, murdered in Majdanek. Description of the great liquidation action of 1942. In June 1943, the author escaped from a work detail outside the camp and returned to Warsaw. His stay in various hideouts in Warsaw. Considerations on the detrimental character of religious disputes and the superiority of the Communist system. Complaints about Poles appropriating Jewish property. In 1945 the author submitted a copy to the Jewish Historical Commission in Lodz.

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