Wolność From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Wolność
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  • in the ghetto
  • social/communal
  • children, care / social welfare, pedagogues, orphanages

  • Here was situated the Orphanage in which Rachela Kleiner worked from 1942.

  • Part I. Participation in a sabotage group after the outbreak of the German-Soviet war in 1941. A failed attempt to escape to the east and return to Lvov. Jewish pogroms organised by the Ukrainians. The establishment of the Lvov ghetto. The author left for Warsaw, and since 1942 worked in an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. In August 1942 she left for Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, and after the liquidation of the ghetto had to return to Warsaw, where she reported to leave for Germany. Part II. Work in an armament factory in Gera (Thuringia). Remarks on attitudes of the Germans and forced labourers. Liberation, return to Poland. Before the war, the author was a member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine. Typescript (+ carbon copy). Published: Rachela Kleiner, Wspomnienia z getta w Warszawie (grudzien 1941 r. - wrzesien 1942 r.) (Memoires from the Warsaw Ghetto, December 1941 - September 1942) , 'Biuletyn ZIH', No. 2 (62), 1967, pp.125-136 (fragment). <b>Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute </b>
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