Jews' Diaries, sygn. 302/121, Jewish Historical Institute Archives; author: Beniamin Horowitz; title: 'Memoirs of an Anonymous Waraw Ghetto Policeman'

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  • Jews' Diaries; sygn.302/121 in: the Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute; Beniamin Horowitz (Wladyslaw Pawlak). The author worked for the Supply Section of the Judenrat in the Warsaw ghetto. He wrote his memoir while hiding on the so-called 'Aryan side', and after the liberation he re-edited them. The manuscript was prepare for publication in the 'Wiedza' publishing house (stylistic changes and minor censorship). The author returned to Jewish issues as late as 1986 (fictionalised memoirs ''Urodzeni w Warszawie' [Born in Warsaw] under the name Wladyslaw Pawlak). Records based on the memoir original in:
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