Given name: matka Halinki Family name: Aszkenazy

a widow. Before the war, she was a teacher, brining up the daughter on her own. In the beginning of the war she lived together with her sister and her family - later, her loved-ones ran away to Russia. Living in poverty in the autumn and winter 1939, she was doing different things: trading, giving lessons. She had a strong character and she taught her daughter to have strong will, repeating that they must survive. She was tireless in acquiring food in the ghetto. She hid others' children. For her own children she finds food.

Before the war she had a telephone, which she preserved in the ghetto by stroke of fate (there were hardly any telephones in the entire ghetto).