Given name: Janina Family name: Pomer

  • YES
  • Female
  • Janina
  • Pomer

  • Julian Traube's aunt. Her husband was captured and sent to the camp in Kaweczyn. She decided to join his husband as an 'Aryan'. She went successfully through the check on ghetto gates, but the same day she was taken to the Umschlagplatz. She made a mistake, instead of going with the workers' column to the factory, she jumped from the column just after leaving the ghetto. A blackmailer turned her over to the police, who escorted her to the Befehlstelle. Julian Traube couldn't do anything for her, because groups from the Befehlstelle were taken to the Umschlagplatz with the list of names.

  • Jews' Diaries, catalogue number 302/27; in the Jewish Historical Institute Archives; The diary contains information about different aspects of life in the Warsaw ghetto: internal imprisonment in the ghetto, obligatory disinfection, activity of Gestapo agents (so-called the "Thirteen") and entrepreneurs Kohn and Heller, resettlements of people from the provinces, activity of house committees, social stratification of the ghetto population, food smuggling, furs confiscation, diminution of the ghetto borders, exhibitions, plays, resettlement of the Gypsies to the ghetto. Informative fragments interweave with belles-lettres narration describing feelings. The author (born in 1915) was an artist, a painter by profession and during the occupation a functionary of Jewish Police in the Warsaw ghetto. According to the afterword of the diary, during the Warsaw ghetto uprising he crossed to the 'Aryan side' and after the Warsaw uprising of 1944 he was taken to Sachsenhausen. In 1945 he donated his diary to the Jewish Historical Commission in Warsaw. He died in France in 1955.

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