Gęsia, Zamenhofa, Smocza, Stawki From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Gęsia, Zamenhofa, Smocza, Stawki
  • square
  • deportation
  • German operations
  • selection

  • Jews, who lived or worked in the ghetto further than Leszno Street, were ordered to gather in a square within those streets for inspection. In Mila Street, between Smocza and Zamenhofa Streets, people were lined up and led to a wooden fence between Mila and Zamenhofa Streets, where several high officials in uniforms made selection among the passing rows. Lash of the whip on the left side meant going to the right, to Zamenhofa Street i.e. deportation; the lash on the right - going into other part of Mila Street, heading Nalewki Street, which was a path to a further life in captivity.

  • The author wrote his memoirs hiding on the so-called 'Aryan side'. it is well-known that he did not survive until the liberation. The memoirs were submitted to the Jewish Historical Institute by two writers: Helena Boguszewska and Jerzy Kornacki. The author describes: the siege of Warsaw in 1939; the early days of the German occupation; the persecution of the Jews; ghetto formation; description of everyday life in the ghetto; influx of deportees, starvation, epidemic; the great deportation action in the summer 1942; selection of workers in the 'shops'; living conditions in the 'rump' ghetto; blackmail of Jews on the co-called 'Aryan side'; the role of the Polish Police and the Jewish Police (Order Service). Published: Pamietniki z getta warszawskiego (Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs), Warsaw, 1993, pp. -26, 95-96, 116-17, 140-142, 155-156, 178-179, 205-208 (fragments).

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