No place to run, London 2002
- David
- Gilbert
- London
- 2002
- memoir
- yes
- after the war
- English
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The memoirs of David Gilbert are written by Tim Shortridge and Michael D. Frounfelter.
Pages:222. Editors: Antony Polonsky, Martin Gilbert, Aubrey Newman, Raphael F.Scharf, Ben Helfgott.
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Related people:
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Komisarz policji
Unknown
The police commissioner at division 16. David Gilbert works as a driver for him.
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Kruger
Elga
Mr. Wloch's daughter. She joins the resistance.
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Kruger
Ryszard
Elga Kruger's husband. He joins the resistance.
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Klugerman
Yosef
He and his family acquired South American passports. On the 27.06.1943 they are in the Hotel Polski.
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Kobieta w ciąży
Unknown
She was taken to a hospital to deliver her baby. She returns to the camp with bad news. The transport that left for...
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Szczepańska
Wanda
Micki Gilbert's nanny.
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Schwalbe
Unknown
David Gilbert's friend. 56 year-old salesman.
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Stróż
Unknown
The caretaker in a house in Mokotowska Street.
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Schmitz
Rolf
The Area Supervisor for the Jewish Trustee. David Gilbert works for him.
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Schrieber
Unknown
A housekeeper at the Goetzel's. An elderly women who comes from Wiesbaden in Germany.25 August 1942 she is taken to...
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Salzman
Paweł
He left his valuables on "the Aryan side". He asks David Gilbert to get them for him.
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Schultz
Fritz
The owner of a factory in the ghetto.
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Sołowiejczyk
Aleksy
He was in Bergen-Belsen. Born and raised in Warsaw. He was an engineer before the war and quite an intellectual.
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Policjant
Unknown
He searches the Goetzel family in their apartment in Mokotow.
- Policjant Żydowski Unknown
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Wasilewski
Piotr
He rented his cottage to the Goetzel family.
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Włoch
Unknown
David Gilbert's supervisor in the import department. "A stooped-over, grey-haired gentleman"; dies in the...
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Walfisz
Henryk
Sophie Goetzel's brother. He dies, struck by a piece of glass in his throat during an explosion
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Walfisz
Stefania
Sophie Goetzel's sister-in-law. Soon after the beginning of the war she becomes a widow. 25 August 1942 she is taken...
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Walfisz
Halina
The daughter of Sophie Goetzel's brother. She was 11-years-old when the war begun. She was deported to a labour camp...
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Walfisz
Stanisław
Syn Henryka Walfisza, brata Sophie Goetzel. Miał 14 lat, gdy zaczęła się wojna. Deportowany do obozu pracy na wschod...
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Walfisz
Unknown
Sophie Goetzel's mother. She dies of malnutrition.
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Walfisz
Unknown
Sophie Goetzel's father. He died in sanitarium in October 1939.
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Wróbliński
Franciszek
A bank cashier. He trades with David Gilbert.
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Nadaner
Unknown
David Gilbert's friend. " A tall, well-dressed, 46 year-old with thinning hair". He travels throughout Pol...
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Unknown
Ewa
Piotr Goetzel's friend. In October 1939 they try to escape to Russia.
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Unknown
Nora
David Gilbert's assistant. On 25August 1942 she was taken to the Umschlagplatz during the day of selection in Schult...
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Lekarz
Unknown
Sophie Goetzel's doctor.
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Gilbert Goetzel
David
In Paris he met his wife-Sophie. He and Sophie left Germany in 1935 to escape anti-Semitism and the Nazis. They move...
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Goetzel
Sophie
She came from a Polish- Jewish family, living for some time in Germany. Before the war she studied in France, where...
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Goetzel
Miriam (Micki)
She was born in Warsaw. When she was to-years-old the war begun. She left the ghetto in 1942. She was raised by Cath...
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Goetzel
Piotr
David Goetzel's brother. He escaped successfuly to Russia in October 1939. There he seperated with his girlfriend Ew...
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Goorka
Unknown
Fritz Schultz's secretary.
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Gutkowskie
Unknown
A 12-year-old girl and her mother. They are on the Palestinian list. On the 13 July1943 they left the Hotel Polski....
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Reinhardtowie
Unknown
Before moving to the ghetto they buried some diamonds and money. If David Gilbert brings those for them, they will s...
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Maldunek
Anna
She and her mother provide a hiding place for Sophie Goetzel (from 13 January 943).
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Maldunek
Berta
She and her daughter provide a hiding place for Sophie Goetzel (from 13 January 1943).
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Alter
Piotr
A doctor. Sophie Goetzel's room-mate. They are hiding. The former headmaster of a Jewish school in Warsaw. He ran fr...
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Alter
Małgorzata
Sophie Goetzel's room-mate in Maldunek's's house. They are hiding.
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Halpern
Unknown
Two girls (7 and 9-year-old) and their mother. They are on the Palestine list. On the 13 July 1943 they left the Hot...
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Jabłońska
Janina
The German Commissar; persuades her boss to hire David Gilbert as a translator.
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Jelinowicz
Oskar
Paul Salzman entrusted him his money before moving to the ghetto.
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Zondek
Marysia
She takes care of Micki Goetzel, after she leaves the ghetto.
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znajomy autora
Unknown
He escaped from the transport to Dresden. He realised that the trains were going in the wrong direction. They were o...
- Eisner Unknown
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Engle
Unknown
Issues emigration visas to Palestine at the Hotel Polski.
- Eichmann Adolf
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Demske
Unknown
She works in the office of the Chief Trustee for Jewish Property in Occupied Warsaw.
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Dobry
Nieznane
Strażnik w więzieniu na Mokotowie. Za odpowiednią opłatą dostarcza Davidowi Goetzel informacje o tym co się dzieje n...
Related places:
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Szucha 30
Gilbert's family apartment.
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Chłodna
The Goetzels' new apartment.
- Długa 29
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Unknown
Sophie Goetzel's hiding place.
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Unknown
The train with the Jews stops here. They are free.
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Unknown
David Gilbert's home town.
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Unknown
In April 1943 the Nazis created Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony near the city of Zelle as a transit center - Bergen-Be...
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Unknown
David Gilbert rented a cottage because their daughter's doctor said that the country would be good for her.
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Unknown
David Gilbert's hiding place.
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Elektoralna
The Walfisz's house.
- Rakowiecka
Related events:
- David returns to Warsaw by an overcrowded train. As soon as he arr... 1939-09-04 ,
- England and France declare war on Germany. David decides to return... 1939-09-03 ,
- The Goetzel family and Micki's nanny come back from Skolimow to th... 1939-08 ,
- David and Piotr stand in a long queue to register for mobilisation... 1939-09 ,
- "We'll give you a day of atonement you'll never forget"... 1939-09 ,
- Piotr, Wanda, Sophie and Micki leave Henryk's apartment. Since Sop... 1939-09-21 ,
- David drives up to Henryk's. It was a terrible night for the famil... 1939-09-22 ,
- David has a message for Mr. Eisner which he has to deliver to the... 1939-11 ,
- David and Sophie visit Mr. Wloch, his daughter Elga and her husban... 1940 ,
- David is arrested for not wearing an armband. He is taken to the M... 1940-09-03 ,
- Sophie and Janina are doing everything they can to help David. Eve... 1940-09-04 ,
- David witnesses a homosexual rape performed by the Gestapo - so th... 1940-09 ,
- Sophie i Micki move to the Kruger's. Their apartment is already in... 1940-10 ,
- David is released from prison. 1941-05-05 ,
- David meets with Mr. and Mrs. Reinhardt. They offer him a deal. Be... 1942-01 ,
- David proponuje swojemu szefowi- Schmitzowi udział w wyprawie po k... 1942-01 ,
- Schmitz and David visit the Aryan side regularly. Every trip to th... 1942 ,
- Sophie can't sleep. Every night the Gestapo murder and kidnap some... 1942 ,
- Being unemployed is dangerous, that's why David asks Mr. Reinhardt... 1942-07 ,
- Resettlement is announced. All unemployed Jewish residents are to... 1942-07-22 ,
- All of David's income sources have vanished. The office where he w... 1942-07 ,
- Mr. Wloch dies. David visits the Krugers to pay his respects. The... 1942-07 ,
- David finds a job for himself and his staff at the Schultz factory... 1942-07 ,
- Every day people report for resettlement. Whenever too few volunte... 1942-08-01 ,
- Halina works in a warehouse on the "Aryan side", she tak... 1942-08-03 ,
- Sophie leaves the ghetto. Wanda found her a hiding place on the &q... 1943-01-13 ,
- Anna Maldunek and her mother Berta will be risking their lives to... 1943-01-13 ,
- Miss Demske calls Dawid. She warns him that he must leave the ghet... 1943-01-15 ,
- Sophie keeps thinking about her family. Sometimes Wanda visits and... 1943-01 ,
- Wanda brings Sophie to Hotel Polski in the last moment. David was... 1943-07-13 ,
- The trains have stopped in the middle of the wood. After a two hou... 1943-07 ,
- The life in the camp is very monotonous. Everything revolves aroun... 1943-07 ,
- Adolf Eichmann is rounding up all the Jews with South American pas... 1943-10-21 ,
- David and Sophie become very popular. Sophie tells fairy-tales and... 1943-11 ,
- A women, taken to a hospital to deliver her baby, returns with bad... 1944-03 ,
- " You are being evacuated to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia... 1945-04-06 ,
- David is at work. His friends plan to escape to Russia. They think... 1939-09-04 ,
- "They've murdered everyone who's gone east. I spoke to a man... 1942-08 ,
- SS officers plunge into the factory. All the Jews are to assemble... 1942-08-25 ,
- Again a selection takes place. Out of 2000 employees there are onl... 1942-09 ,
- David approaches the center of Skolimow. He wants to buy some food... 1939-09-01 ,
- David wakes up because of the sound of the flying planes. It\'s th... 1939-09-01 ,
- The Germans march into Warsaw. Henryk is being buried. 1939-10-01 ,
- David and Piotr leave the house - they need to get some food. On t... 1939-10 ,
- After a week Peter shows up at David's. He's not alone-his friend... 1939-10 ,
- The first transport leaves Hotel Polski. The Klugerman family says... 1943-07-05 ,
- Sophie is convinced that David and Micki are on their way to Franc... 1943-07-08 ,
- " I don't want to leave this place without my wife, but I wil... 1943-07-12 ,
- Sophie is realesed thanks to a ruse that Schmitz and his people di... 1943-07-13 ,
- Mr Wloch, David's supervisor hands him a small wad of money - sala... 1939-09-04 ,
- David asks his brother to visit Skolimow and check how his family... 1939-09-05 ,
- David visits the office that used to belong to his former employer... 1939-11 ,
- Sophie is still hiding. The tiny, dark cellar where she's hidden s... 1943-06 ,
- The march from the camp to the trains is incredibly hard. People a... 1943-04-07 ,
- The bombing begins. The train has been evacuated three times. Ever... 1943-04-10 ,
- Micki, Sophie and David arrive in Palestine. 1945-06 ,
- Franc and Wanda found a new hiding place for David. It is an aband... 1943-03 ,
- "it's over, the entire ghetto is in flames... So many lives,... 1943-05 ,
- The Germans plunge Sophie's hiding place. Sophie says goodbye to h... 1943-06-07 ,
- David and Wanda pay the Germans for looking the other way while So... 1943-06 ,
- David reaches Hotel Polski. He crawls on his knees to move past th... 1943-06-27 ,
- David and Micki are reunited, at last, after a year of separation.... 1943-06 ,
- David has to find a way of earning money. After eight months in pr... 1941-05 ,
- Every Tuesday and Friday David visits a bank on the Aryan side. Th... 1941-11 ,
- Sophie's mother dies. She had a broken bone which couldn't get bet... 1941-11 ,
- Sophie, David i Micki move into a new flat in Chlodna Street. The... 1941-12 ,
- Franc finds Wanda for David. They meet in the old courthouse. Wand... 1941-12-08 ,
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Komisarz policji
Unknown