Given name: Czesława Family name: Raifeld-Pechnik

  • YES
  • Female
  • Czesława
  • Raifeld-Pechnik

  • A sincere, admirable woman. She worked for House Committees. She took care of the refugees coming into the ghetto. She would take orphans in her arms, summoning a word of consolation for everyone. She didn't mind the warnings made to her, she would answer - 'Under the present conditions, to die of typhus isn't the worst of deaths'. Having used up all her private means, she was forced to take up paid employment. When the deportations began, she refused to get exemption papers for herself. Around August 15, 1942, she was deported to Treblinka with her entire family.

  • activists, care / social welfare

  • Written between 1952 and 1954, the book is a key work documenting the Warsaw ghetto from its establishment to its final days. What did life look like in the Warsaw ghetto? What organizations took - or should have taken - care of its inhabitants? How did so many survive in such a terrible isolation? In answering those questions Michel Mazor details the vanishing of a city. The book is a study of the social and political life of the Warsaw ghetto.

  • 96-97