Franciszkańska From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Midtown
  • Franciszkańska
  • 10
  • before formation of the ghetto
  • business, social/communal
  • address, children, housing

  • There was a flat of the author's uncle, Mendel Miodownik, and aunt, Lea Miodownik. The author organised there a private kindergarten for the children from the neighbourhood, thanks to which she could earn extra money and support the home budget.

  • Memoirs of a young girl, who spent the beginning of the war and occupation with her family in Warsaw. She suffered the loss of most of her friends and relatives there. After staying almost totally alone, she decided to fight for her life in another city - Czestochowa. Living partly in the ghetto, and partly outside it, she co-operates, among others, with the Jewish underground. Thanks to contacts with Poles, she supports and helps her compatriots who live in the ghetto. After the liquidation of the Czestochowa ghetto, she was arrested and then deported to labour in Germany. She started to write her memories there.

  • 15-16