Marszałkowska From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Midtown
  • Marszałkowska
  • 100
  • before Ghetto
  • private/everyday life
  • atmosphere

  • before the war there was a bar, 'Pod Setka'; in January 1940 the street was unusually deserted, and before the war it was the busiest point in Warsaw; on the corner, where before there was the 'Pod Setka' bar, sat a woman with a few newspapers

  • Reminiscences from the occupation period written not chronologically. The author's return from German captivity in January 1940. The construction of the Warsaw wall ghetto. Stay on the 'Aryan side' since 1942 (incl. Wolomin). The ghetto uprising as seen from the outside. The great action in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, the author and his wife waited out in a hideout. The reminiscences submitted by the author to the Jewish Historical Institute in 1963.

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