Leszno From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Leszno
  • 53/55
  • the Municipal Courts building
  • in the ghetto
  • administrative, business
  • air raid, outposts, the 'Aryan' side, smuggling, escaping the ghetto

  • An extraterritorial place of meetings, smuggling. A building through which people could cross to the 'Aryan side.' During a Russian air raid on 4 or 5 September a couple of bombs landed near the Courts [the author gives the date so it might be incorrect!]. In Winter 1942/1943 the author worked in the building with a group of work detail workers (they were peeling potatoes).

  • Cyprys, Ruth Altbeker. A Jump for Life: A Survivor's Journal from Nazi-Occupied Poland, ed., Elaine Potter, London: Constable, 1997

  • [36-37,, 63;, 81]