Gęsia, Smocza, Zamenhofa, Niska From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Gęsia, Smocza, Zamenhofa, Niska
  • deportation
  • German operations
  • selection

  • Jews who still stayed in the ghetto in September 1942 were to focus withing these streets; there was a 'round-up' there

  • Living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto. German looting and provisioning problems. The author worked for the House Committee in Ogrodowa Street. Operation of People's Kitchens, combating typhus. Worsening starvation, food smuggling. Shooting a German propaganda film in the ghetto. The great liquidation action (the author was hiding with her child, and avoided deportation as a physician's wife). Living conditions in the 'rump ghetto' after the action; deportations in January 1943. In February 1943, the author and her child crossed to the so-called 'Aryan side'. The Memoir was written in hiding on the Aryan side in Warsaw. The note reads: 'Memoir submitted by Mrs Brzezinska, the Polish-Soviet Institute', pp. 1-31, format: 290 x 210 mm, in Polish

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