Jews' Diaries, sygn. 302/97; Jewish Historical Institute Archives; author: Franciszka Grunberg; title: no title

A friend of her husband, who worked in the same branch. Very rich building contractor. Owned a very prosperous compa...

Franciszka Grunberg's husband's friend.

head of a colonial shop; together with SS-men enters every flat in the block where Zofia lives and he checks work re...

Kaczorek's wife.

The Grunbergs were looking for a shelter at his place. A peasant.

Owned vast areas of land.

A priest from Michalowice.

The housekeeper of the house where Mrs. F. lived.

Butcher's wife. Franciszka often brought meat from this butcher. Worked in a sewing room [in a snack bar] selling sw...

A butcher. In the ghetto Franciszka Grunberg always bought the best meat from him.

The boy was taken out of the ghetto with his father.

Butcher's daughter. Was in a sewing room with her mother.

The Grunbergs notice the man standing on the path leading to Ziuta's house. Ca. 40 years old, well-built. Wore a bla...

an 85-year-old priest.

Gospodarz dostarczający na Służewcu mleko dla posterunku. pomógł Grunbergom uciec z rąk niemieckich.

10 or 12-year-old Sobczak's son. Sobczak was the peasant who helped the Grunbergs get out of the hands of the Germans.

Sobczak's wife. Sobaczak was peasant.

The Grunbergs were afraid that he might go to the chair of a village council and tell him that some Jews were living...

came from Nowogrodek. Had to escape from the Bolsheviks.

The Grunbergs found a shelter in his cottage. A petite woman, fair hair. did not look like a peasant woman.

A farmer, who had a remarkably nice appearance. A chair of a village council gave the Grunbergs her address. At the...

The Grunbergs found a shelter in her house after long journey that lasted a whole chilly day.

Daughter of the woman who gave hiding to the Grunbergs after a long journey on a very chilly day.

A farmer, about 40-years-old, stout, as bald as a coot.

Franciszka Grunberg calls her from the ghetto to ask for help. At her and her husband's place stays Rysiek. Later, F...

Husband of Mrs Franciszka P., with whom Franciszka was said to talk about her son. Franicszka wanted him and his wif...

A gendarme in the ghetto.

A gendarme in the ghetto.

Ex-neighbour of the author. Could not help Franciszka, her husband was a coward. Did not have appropriate acquaintan...

He was a Grunbergs' neighbours. They brought him linen before crossing to the 'Aryan side'. After they left the ghet...

He worked as a teacher in a locality near Warsaw.

The wife of Seweryn W. who did not let Marysia into the flat when the woman came for the Grunberg's piano.

Marysia's little daughter.

A peasant. The Grunbergs asked him if he could show them the way to the Feliksiaks. He refused to put them up. Busie...

A farmer to whom the chair of a village council in Kozlow sent the Grunbergs

A 10-year-old boy who was in the carpenter's workshop of Stanislaw W.

Szultz's driver, walked round a flat and shot people.

Cesia's husband. Spent eight months in Treblinka. Visited Cesia, their child and friend in a convent. Brought food f...

An engineer, Polish, took the villa in Falenica away from Cesia.

A Jewish woman. Stayed in a convent because her house had been set on fire. Lived in Falenica after the liquidation...

Cesia's older sister. Buried in the garden of the villa where Cesia lived.

Maria's cousin. Informed Maria during a telephone conversation that ex-maid of Mr. and Mrs. P. was planning to do so...

Młoda, elegancka kobieta przebywająca w getcie warszawskim. Ma przejść na stronę aryjska do swojego męża. Plany te n...

Author's acquaintance from the ghetto. Helped her find a flat.

Cyla's acquaintance. Cyla was Franciszka Grunberg's friend from the ghetto. 28-30-year-old woman. Good-looking and n...

Owned a villa in Bielany where he lived with his wife. Wanted to give shelter to a Jewish family.

She and her husband lived in a villa in Bielany, wanted to gave shelter to a Jewish family.

Marysia's husband. Marysia W. was Franciszka's neighbour.

Had two daughters for whom Basia found a flat.

20 years old, the girl that Mrs. P told Franciszka Grunberg about. The woman took care of a child, sent [it] to a Ge...

Mrs. P.'s acquaintance. Lived in Lowicz, took care of Helenka. She worked in his shop as a shop assistant.

The director of a lingerie factory.

He refused to go with Franciszka and other workers to a lingerie factory when she wanted to hand Rysiek over to Mrs....

Ludwik F.'s acquaintance who came with him to Zlota Street to collect Rysiek Grunberg.

Butcher's son-in-law. Owned a shop in a sewing room (there were two big hideouts that could house many people).

A gendarme who stood at the entrance to and at the way out of the sewing room.

The woman that risked her life when she went outside the hideout (located in a sewing room) and went into the corrid...

An ex-shop assistant. Worked for the Grunbergs for four years.

Ewunia's husband. Ewunia was a shop assistant in the shop owned by the Grunbergs.

Ewunia's mother-in-law, they lived together in Nowolipki Street. Franciszka Grunberg was hiding there with her husba...

Ewunia's father-in-law. Lived with Ewunia and her family in Nowolipki Street. Franciszka Grunberg and her husband we...

Ewunia's father-in-law. Lived with Ewunia and her family in Nowolipki Street. Franciszka Grunberg and her husband we...

Lives with Cyla. The last person that Franciszka had visited before she left the ghetto. The woman in nervous, says...

Franciszka Grunberg's acquaintance to whom they turned to in order to ask him if he could issue Kennkarten for them.

Szulc's shipping agent. Helped Franciszka get to her husband who was staying at Rysiek's. Transported goods to Schul...

The Grunbergs' acquaintance. Goes by car to the 'Aryan side' with Franciszka's husband and Schultz's shipping agent.

Cyla's acquaintance, worked in a shipping company.

A shipping agent. Transported Franciszka Grunberg, Cyla and Cyla's relative out of the ghetto. At the guard's post h...

The gendarme that opened the gate to the ghetto through which Franciszka Grubnberg, Cyla and her relative left the g...

Franciszka's husband handed the receiver to her when this man called after his leaving the ghetto. The man explained...

A doctor that visits Mr. and Mrs. P.

Mr. and Mrs. P.'s maid. Lived alone, her husband was called up into the army in 1939. No children. The Germans took...

Mr. and Mrs. W.'s acquaintance. Lived near Belweder. Stanislaw W. and his wife Marysia found a shelter for the Grunb...

Ziuta's subtenant. Temporarily lived with her child at her brother's place. However, she left all her things at Ziut...

Ziuta's daughter. 16 years old. In the third or fourth grade of primary school.

Ziuta's son. 19 years old. Works in a factory. Works in an [underground] organisation because he wanted to avenge hi...

The care taker of the tenement where Mr. and Mrs. W lived. Franciszka Grunberg had known the woman for 20 years.

The prior of a monastery. Lend books to Ziuta (The Grunbergs read these books, e.g. 'The Life of Francis of Assisi'...

Had two daughters - one in France, the other one in Russia.

Stanislaw' acquaintance. Lived with his mother, daughter and two children in Piastow. Mr. and Mrs. P wanted to put R...

Ksiądz, który przyjmuje Ryśka w internacie w Strugach. Mówi chłopu, że wychowankowie ośrodka by go znienawidzili, al...

Son of Mr. and Mrs. W.'s acquaintance from Piastow. Rysiek lived at his place after having moved out of Mr. and Mrs....

Second son of Mr. and Mrs. W.'s acquaintance from Piastow. Rysiek lived at his place after having moved out of Mr. a...

Leosia's son. Leosia visited Ziuta with him. His mother sewed clothes for him.

Ludwik's acquaintance to whom the Grunbergs were to turn for help if they wanted to sell jewelery or currency.

Mother of 'Stupid Czesiek.' Did not howl with pain while the Germans were killing her son.

A priest. Ziuta talked with him in a flat about sewing or repairing something for the church.

Marysia's sister. Marysia and Stach brought Rysiek to her place after they had picked him up from the stop (He got o...

Marysia's sister.

Hanka's acquaintance.

Marysia's sister's son. 4 years old.

A streetcar driver. Said that Rysiek was a Jew. Ordered the boy to settle outstanding fine, otherwise he threatened...

Lusia's friend from school.

Marysia's sister' daughter. Rysiek lived at her place.

The 'Aryan' woman at whose place the Grunbergs lived. A widow- her husband, who was a policeman, died.

Married an 'Aryan' at whose place the Grunbergs lived. An ex-policeman, died in Majdanek.

Mrs. F.'s neighbour who informed Franciszka that the Germans wanted to set the house on fire.

A parish priest.

A Jewess. Lived in the tenement administrator's flat. Mrs. F. lived in the same tenement.

A Jewess daughter.

Lived in the centre of Warsaw. During the uprising lived with her husband and the Grunbergs in one room at the recto...

Lived in the centre of Warsaw. During the uprising lived with his wife and the Grunbergs in one room at the rectory.

A priest in the monastery of the Congregation of the Resurrection.

The woman that came to the rectory with a child wrapped in a pillow. Got 500 zloty from the priest after having told...

A woman that came to the rectory asking for help and got shelter.

Cesia's little daughter. Stayed in a convent with her mother after their house burnt down.

A woman delivering milk to a post in Sluzewiec.

An old lady that the Grubergs and Blondyna met. They found a shelter at her place. Blondynka is very nernous, she su...

Niunka's sister.

Niunka's father.

A Jewish woman, a servant in Niunka's flat.

Olszewska's son-in-law, seemed a dangerous type to the Grunbergs, but when they got to know him better he turned out...

The man that escorted the Grunbergs to Mrs. Olszewska's. Gives them his mother's address and offers them a shelter a...

The chair of a Michalowice village council. The Grunbergs following the Kaczoreks' advice turned to him for help. Ab...

Chair of a Michalowice village council's wife.

The Zwolinskis's cousin. The Zwolinskis were the headmasters.

Chair of a village council, where Zolnierka lived, 4 km from the village of Grzmiaca

A rich farmer whose address the Grunbergs got from a chair of a village council.

A rich farmer. Showed the Grunbergs around the flat at the chair of the village council's request.

Kozlow and Kiedrzyn's chair of a village council.

Stanislaw W.'s young neighbour.

Stanislaw W.'s young neighbour.

An old wagoner, lived in a small room, in Kiedrzyn, close to Stanislaw W.

An old Varsovian. In Kiedrzyn she lived in the little room next to Stanislaw W. She and her daughter dealt in butter...

The chair of Ulow village council.

The chair of the council of a village 8 km from Kiedrzyn.

Wife of the chair of the council of a village 8 km from Kiedrzyn.

The chair of Kiedrzyn village council.

A farmer at whose place the Grunbergs found shelter thanks to the chair of the village council.

German. In plain clothes. Almost like an SS-man. Helped 64 people including the Grunbergs whom he helped to leave th...

A senior constable. Lived with his wife and two daughters in the same house where Ziuta lived.

Was a doctor. In the ghetto with her husband and son.

Franciszka Grunberg's husband. Worked in an ironing-room. Escaped from the ghetto with his wife.

Author's daughter. Died during the war.

Franciszka Grunberg's 13-year-old son. In the ghetto with his parents. Later on at Mrs. P.'s.

An insane young man, known in the neighbourhood as 'stupid Czesiek.'

A 35-year-old priest.

franciszka Grunberg's father.

Gestapo commissioner, owned a colonial shop.

about 30-year-old priest from the monastery of the Congregation of the Resurrection.

Marysia W.'s brother.

An old farmer in whose house Rysiek lived.

Mr. P.'s father (84 years old).

A community director in Luban.

Franciszka Grunberg's acquaintance whom she asks for help. She asks him to use his connections which would make Rysi...

A housekeeper. The Grunbergs live at her place.

About 26-28 years old, a good-looking woman.

The Grunbergs lived at his place.

A commissar, Ziuta's neighbour.

a tram driver.

Owned many properties in Michalowice. She liked the way that Rysiek was doing the duties of an altar boy. Offers her...

A farmer from Sk. village. A commune director of Luban sent the Grunbergs to this village.

She refused to help the Grunbergs.

A young students, 22 or 23 years old. Stayed with the Grunbergs at Mr. and Mrs. P's.

The Grunbergs were to live in his flat in the Old Town after they left the ghetto. Works at a railway station. In hi...

Michal Cz.'s brother. 17 years old. Worked in a hospital as a porter.

Mr. Cz.'s oldest son. Michal Cz. was Mr. Cz.'s son. Died during the war,

A neighbour of Marysia's sister from Warsaw. A great anti-Semite.

Daughter of Marysia's sister's neighbour from Warsaw.

The headmaster of the school in Michalowice.

The wife of the headmaster.

daughter of the headmaster.

A seventeen-year-old son of the headmaster of the school in Michalowice.

The oldest son of the headmaster of the school in Michalowice.

Lives across the Pilica river.

Roland's bosom friend, who used to visit him in the afternoons.

Ziuta's neighbour. Used to hung out at her place. Tadzik's mother. Tadzik was Roland's friend.

Kazik - Zofia's son. Zofia was Ziuta's neighbour. The boy stayed with his mother. Her second son worked in the east.

The woman that gave shelter to the Grunbergs.

The farmer in Michalowice to whose house the Grunbergs came looking for a shelter.

A lawyer who was hiding with the Grunbergs at a parish priest's.

Married a lawyer, a dentist.

Lived in Zalesie.

Niunka's mother.

Rysiek Grunberg, 13-letni syn Franciszki, dentystki, dzięki staraniom matki wyszedł z getta 13.03.1943 r. Wyprowadzi...

children's clothes workshop; Franciszka Grunberg does shopping for her son there, when she sends the child out of th...

the place where Franciska brings Rysiek and says goodbye to the son; she is not sure if she will ever see her child...

Mme Grunberg together with Rysiek had an appointment with Mr P. in this street who was supposed to collect the boy f...

Underwear factory. Franciszka meets here Mr Witold, Marysia and Maria P.

a factory in the neighbourhood of the underwear factory; Franciszka was supposed to go there with her son to hand hi...

the sewing room where Franciszka Grunberg works

the butcher's wife's hideout

Franciszka Grunberg and with her husband and Michal Cz. pass this street as they are going to Mr and Mrs P., to Mich...

Franciszka Grunberg together with her husband and Michal Cz pass this street on their way from Mr and Mrs P.'s flat...

Tobbens's flat

Cylia's flat

Mme Basia's flat, a few houses from Mr and Mrs P.'s flat

Jerzy's flat

The expedition office next to which Franciszka Grunberg and Ludwik F. decide to meet. They want to take Rysiek outsi...

The flat of the P. family; Rysiek and later Franciszka and her husband stay there

The way Franciszka covers to the flat of the P. family, where her husband and son are.

At the corner of the streets Franciszka parted with her husband and Mr Michal. Franciszka went to Mr and Mrs W. to C...

Franciszka Grunberg went down this street to the house of Mr and Mrs W. She lived in this area in the past for 20 ye...

Marysia and Stanislaw's W. flat.

A former park

Ziuta's flat.

A path, which the Grunbergs observed from the windows of Ziuta's house. It ran through a park, from Chelmska to Jana...

Ziuta's garden, where the woman often spent her free time.

The flat was situated in a modern tenement house, on the fifth or sixth floor. In the room there was only a bed, cha...

The office of a parish priest, near Mrs F. flat. People who had received the news that their house would be soon tor...

a 'room' in the monastery of the Congregation of the Resurrection; the Grunbergs get it

The garden of a church. It was huge, filled with solemnity and peace.

The church where Franciszka goes after the liberation of Warsaw, in order to meet father Romanczyk. It turns out, ho...

The Germans led a crowd of people there.

St Boniface church in Czerniakow [a district of Warsaw]; people led by Germans after leaving the monastery of the Co...

Michal's flat.

The Hotel Polski was situated there. The Germans deported the Jews from there, promising them a journey to Paraguay...

Franciszka Grunberg with husband and Michal Cz. go past this square, as they were going from Mr and Mrs P.'s flat to...

a street through which Germans led a crowd of people

a hospital in Powsin, where the ill among the people taken out by Germans from the monastery of the Congregation of...

the was which Franciszka with husband and Ewunia's parents cover - from Ewunia's flat to a shelter where they hid (1...

the Grunbergs' former employee, Ewunia's flat; by the border with the 'wild' district' she lived with her husband, i...

A flat belonging to Stanislaw's friend, who helped to look after Rysiek.

The place where the villa that Lusia recieved from an engineer was situated.

Warsaw ghetto area.

A flat belonging to Franciszka Grunberg and her family.

In front of Ludwik's F. house. The Grunbergs met him in this street when they were heading to his flat.

Szulc's expedition; in from of the building Franciszka Grunberg and her husband make an appointment with an expeditor

the place where there was a guard post; an exit from the ghetto

The way from the ghetto, which Franciszka Grunberg made by car with Cyla and her relative in order to get to Mr and...

A way, which Franciszka Grunberg and her husband (Michal Cz.), made from Mr and Mrs P.'s place to Michal's father ho...

The way, which Franciszka Grunberg made with Stach. From Mr and Mrs W. flat in Chlodna Street, to Chelmska Street.

A shelter for 125 children, whom the Grunbergs see from the windows of Ziuta's house.

The monastery of the Congregation of the Resurrection. It is located behind Mrs Ziuta's flat.

In front of Stach's flat, where he came to order the men to set up barricades and was shot by the Germans.

A home for children ran by priests.

Struga- a boarding house for boys of the street. Rysiek looked for help there.

A cake shop, where Jerzy leaves Marysia and goes to asses the value of a ring.

Stanislaw's Kr. flat.

A bus stop, where Marysia and Stach collect Rysiek.

Franciszka Grunberg's daughter stayed there before 1 November 1942. She had 'Aryan papers' partly prepared by Seweryn.

A town, where starving, tired Grunbergs searched for shelter. They tried to buy something to eat in a local shop, bu...

A flat belonging to Grunbergs' friends, where they stayed for a few days.

A sports field near Marysia's sister's flat, where Rysiek played football with his friends.

Seweryn's flat.

A flat belonging to Marysia's sister. Rysiek stayed there.

A one-floor house situated near a 'park'. It stood next to a church. Far end of Warsaw.

The suburbs, where people, whom the Germans threw out from the convent of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Res...

The way from the monastery of the Congregation of the Resurrection to Podchorazych Street.

A street, where a march led by the Germans was heading, from Czerniakowska Street to Sluzewiec.

A stable, where the march rested.

A village near Warsaw where Sobczak lived.

Franciszka, together with her husband and Cyrkowka, went from the Sobczaks' flat to Piaseczno, making 12 kilometres....

Three villages behind Piaseczno. Franciszka together with her husband and Cyrkowka walked that way in search of a sh...

A flat belonging to an elderly lady, where the Grunbergs spent one night with the Blonde. It turned out that the wom...

The Grunbergs reached Zalesie after leaving the elderly German lady's flat. They were tired with their journey. Fran...

A flat where the Grunbergs found shelter. An elderly, sick woman with her 18-year-old daughter lived there.

A place, where the Grunbergs met Genia after the liberation.

A train, with which Franciszka and her husband went from Zalesie to Warsaw.

A stubble where the Grunbergs met Rysiek, who was pasturing cows.

Rysiek stayed there, Franciszka and her husband had to pretend, that they did not know their own child, in order to...

The Grunbergs found shelter in Olszewska's flat. It was close to Mr and Mrs R's flat, where Rysiek stayed, so they o...

A village near Warsaw, where there were a lot of orchards. The Grunbergs knocked on the door of every cottage asking...

A cooperative, which the Grunbergs enter in order to find a place to live. It was located in a village near Warsaw,...

A house belonging to a young woman, whom the Grunbergs meet in the cooperative in a village near Warsaw.

A village near Warsaw.

A clean house situated in a field, nobody else lived within 3 kilometres. The Grunbergs recieved a warm welcome. Des...

A flat near a road belonging to Wrobel, his 23-year-old wife and 2-year-old daughter. The family welcomed the Grunbe...

A flat, where two men dressed in urban clothes and a young woman helped the Grunbergs. They shared their food with t...

A house belonging to farmer Stasiek Kaczorek and his family. It consisted of two rooms, fairly clean and poorly furn...

A town where the Grunbergs went due to the Kaczors' , with whom they cannot live any more in Dziarnowo, recommendati...

The area of the New Town in Warsaw, where people celebrated after the finished war.

Judenrat office in Borowo.

The school, which was managed by Mr. Zwolinski - the man who took care of the Grunbergs and who found a shelter for...

The house consisted of a huge, furnished room and a very big kitchen. 'Big, fat woman' - the landlady, who did not l...

A church, where the Grunbergs spent a couple of hours a day in order to avoid the Germans who shepherded to work.

The way, which the Grunbergs made after leaving Michalowice. They went in the direction of Borowe, because the bogs...

A village, form which the Grunbergs reached Pilica.

The way which the Grunbergs made from the village Borowe to Pilica.

A village where the Grunbergs searched for shelter after leaving Michalowice.

A village where Zolnierka lives, it is four kilometres from Grzmiaca.

Zolnierka's flat, four kilometres from the Grzmiac village

At village-mayor's place in the country, 4 kilometres from Grzmiace village.

The Grunberg family look for shelter there in a deserted house of 'Zolnierka'. The village is in the forest; its cab...

The house of the village council chair, one of the poorest houses in the area.

The way from Kozlow to Kiedrzyn, which the Grunbergs made in frost and snow.

A house belonging to Stach W, where there also was a carpenter's workshop. the Grunbergs searched for shelter there...

Franciszka and Rysiek cut out trees for fuel from this wood.

The Grunbergs went to this settlement to do shopping.

A house belonging to a Polish woman, who took over the farm from Jews.

A church in Kostrzyn, where the Grunbergs attend service every Sunday. The church was big and slightly Gothic.

The Grunbergs searched for food among the residents of this village.

The neighbourhood of a carpenter's workshop, where Stanislawa W. lived.

On the way between Kiedrzyn and Ulow.

A house belonging to the village council chair of Ulow, where the Grunbergs searched for shelter.

A village famous for ram husbandry. In this village, the Grunbergs eyewitnessed the stir of the residents, caused by...

A village situated 8 kilometres from Kiedrzyn, where the Grunbergs searched for shelter without success.

The Grunbergs searched for a place to live in Strykow, after leaving Stanislaw's W. house.

On the railway station in Strykow the Grunbergs talked to Antoni. Three people listened to the convertsation.

A village situated two or three railway stations from Strykow, where the Grunbergs got off the train.

A place where the Grunbergs come after leaving Michalowice. Mr. R., the Judenrat head, helps them in finding a flat.

Mr R.'s flat - head of a department in the Judenrat in Luban

A shop, where the Grunbergs bought a roll and a sausage.

A village five kilometres far away from Luban. The Grubergs get order from village council chair to this household.

Mrs and Mr Sz. house, where the Grunbergs hid.

Franciszka Grunberg passes there on her way to the underwear factory

Michal Cz.'s father's flat, where Franciszka with husband also live; the flat is on the second floor; it is quite bi...