Leszno From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Leszno
  • a flat in the house that belonged to the gardener of the St. Mary's Church.
  • in the ghetto
  • social/communal
  • underground movement, press

  • Another flat in the house that belonged to the gardener of the St. Mary's Church. It had many recesses and alcoves. There was a copier used to print 'Barykada Wolnosci' magazine. Compiled on the basis of Ludwik Oppenheimer's text; pp. 103-106 (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia...(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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