Given name: Józef Family name: Ziemian (4)

(1)

The deputy chief in the brushmakers' shop from the sports club Polonia

(2)

During the war he lost all his family. After escaping from the ghetto, he got in touch with the Jewish National Committee (ZKN). In October 1943 he meets cigarette vendors (papierosiarze) from Plac Trzech Krzyzy (Three Crosses Square). He takes care of them on behalf of ZKN, gives them fake documents, money, looks for places to stay. He takes care of several hiding adult Jews. He distributes ZKN publications. After the war he finished Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw University of Technology). In 1957 he emigrated to Israel.

(3)

Active co-worker of the Centos (the Central Organisation for Orphan Care); Berman Adolf's friend. In the ghetto he was still very young. At the 'Aryan side' he was one of the most brave messengers active in the underground Jewish National Committee (ZKN); one of the most devoted co-operator of Basia Berman, who managed the biggest unit of help and rescue in this Committee. At the 'Aryan side' he contacted a group of Jewish children of the street - cigarettes vendors and took care of them on behalf of the underground Jewish National Committee. He wrote a book 'Cigarettes vendors from the Three Crosses Square'. In Israel he was a construction engineer. He died in January 1971.

(4)

Author's messenger. He looked as a typical Jew, but he was blond. At the end of the war he took care for more than hundred people. Not only did he mechanically transfer benefit, but also found jobs, organised documents, bought clothes, toys.

(2)

author of the memoirs 'The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square'

(3)

Recommended for work in the Centos by Helena Mernholc

(1)

Efros, ; relacja 301-2816 (testimony 301-2816)

(2) 13, (3) str.120,121,129, (4) 48, 54, 95, 284