Given name: Pola Family name: Motylowa

  • YES
  • Female
  • Pola
  • Motylowa
  • Gostynin

  • Binem Motyl's (uncle) wife. In December 1939 she settled with her husband in Binem Motyl's flat. The last message that her family got from her was the telegram: 'Ratujcie Jakoba!' ('Save Jakob!'), that is her husband, who had already been sent to a concentration camp in Germany. She sent it soon after the sudden deportation of Jews from Gostynin in October 1941.

  • The memoir is an account of war-time experiences of Motyl Binem. It covers the period from 1 September 1939 to 1943.

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