Odwazylam sie zyc (I Dared to Live)

  • Sandra
  • Brand
  • Warszawa
  • 1991
  • account/testimony
  • yes
  • after the war
  • English

  • Memoirs of a young wife and mother who was forced by war-time reality and her determination to survive decides to abandon her family and go to Warsaw. She describes her war-time experiences, her stay in occupied Warsaw, hiding under a Polish name on the 'Aryan side', and her close relationship with a German policeman, and, finally, the liberation and departure from Poland. She describes in detail the situation of a person in hiding, her everyday life, problems, fear, as well as her struggle to survive.