Zamenhofa From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Zamenhofa
  • in the ghetto
  • social/communal
  • hideout

  • The author's brothers and the father started to build a bunker dug below the level of the cellar in the house. It was connected to a sewer by a several meters long tunnel. Building it lasted several months. Compiled on the basis of Krystyna Budnicka's text; pp. 23-26 (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia...(Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 1

  • Several dozen brief biographies and reminiscences of the children of the Holocaust which describe the reality of the occupation. Stories of the youngest eye-witnesses from all over the country. They describe their daily struggle for survival, resistance to the occupier's terror, family tragedies, deaths of family members. Some testimonies deal with the pre-war times, others with post-war days. Brief biographies of those who mainly stayed in Poland after the war. Two of them were sent from Israel.

  • 23-24