Świętojerska From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Świętojerska
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  • before formation of the ghetto
  • private life / daily life
  • address, housing

  • The father in law of Henryk G. - Mr Benjamin Gaus with his family - lived there; in January 1940 lived there also Henryk G. with his wife. The author used interchangeably the name Stojerska Street instead of Swietojerska Street.

  • Reminiscences from the occupation period written not chronologically. The author's return from German captivity in January 1940. The construction of the Warsaw wall ghetto. Stay on the 'Aryan side' since 1942 (incl. Wolomin). The ghetto uprising as seen from the outside. The great action in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, the author and his wife waited out in a hideout. The reminiscences submitted by the author to the Jewish Historical Institute in 1963.

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