Given name: Irena Family name: Wójcik

  • YES
  • Female
  • Irena
  • Wójcik
  • 1937-00-00
  • 1937

  • In 1941 or 1942 she was put by her parents in foster care of a childless Polish woman. When she lived with her she went to the kindergarten and school. She did not realise her real origin. After the war she lived with her mother in the area of the
    Regained Western and Northern Territories. After certain time she learnt about her origin; she is then transported to Lodz to the Jewish Committee and then to the Orphanage in Helenowek. She graduated from the Pedagogical High School, got married and left for Israel.

  • children, survivors, Poles

  • Compiled on the basis of Hanna Mesz's text; pp. 97-100 (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mowią...(Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 1

  • Several dozen brief biographies and reminiscences of the children of the Holocaust which describe the reality of the occupation. Stories of the youngest eye-witnesses from all over the country. They describe their daily struggle for survival, resistance to the occupier's terror, family tragedies, deaths of family members. Some testimonies deal with the pre-war times, others with post-war days. Brief biographies of those who mainly stayed in Poland after the war. Two of them were sent from Israel.

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